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A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.
— Thomas Fuller
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
— Colleen McCullough
While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men.
— Robert A. Caro
The peace of great books be for you,Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
Bleach of the light of years held in leather. — Carl Sandburg
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
— Langston Hughes
I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
— Bob Peterson
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
— Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
— Connie Willis
The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.
— Charles F. Glassman
One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst
I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.
— Anton DiSclafani
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
— Augustine Birrell
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
— Robert Gottlieb
It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.
— Frank Kermode
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
— Magnus Carlsen
As great a storeHave we of books as bees of herbs or more. — Henry Vaughan
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
— Thomas Lennon
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
— Lafcadio Hearn
multitude of books is a great evil
— Clay Shirky
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
— Danielle De Niese
It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.
— Nella Last
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
— Thomas Ehrlich
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
— Henry James
Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work.
— Glen Hirshberg
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
— Ibrahim Babangida
Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
— Kate Evangelista
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
— Andrew Lang
We encounter great souls by reading great books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.
— Claudia Bakker
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
— Mark Twain
Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.
— Kate Morton
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
— Andrew Long
The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.
— John Green
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
— George Gilfillan
Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
— Victoria Osteen
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
— David McCullough
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...
— Leni Riefenstahl
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
— Alan Davies
No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain.
— Ivan Stoikov
We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?
— Malia Ann Haberman
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
— Nicholson Baker
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
— Edmund Hillary
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
— Francois Truffaut
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
— G.K. Chesterton
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
— Malcolm Bradbury
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
— George W. Bush
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.
— John Hill Burton
Books make up no small part of human happiness.
— Frederick The Great
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
— Nicholas Sparks
Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
