Thrilling Read

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac. - Archie Bunker

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. - Peter Drucker

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

It's not the cost of the book. It's what it may cost you not to buy and read it. - Jim Rohn

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at eighteen and at forty-eight. - Ezra Pound

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Cosimo de Medici

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen