Book Carvings

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. - Unknown

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy. - Groucho Marx

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

Book (Best Seller): The gilded tomb of a mediocre talent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Arpeggio: The story book kid with the big nose that grows - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin F Tupper

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Harold Abelson

Yearbook: A book containing student pictures that will keep getting nerdier as the years go by - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

An author in his book must be like God in the universe: present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' - Steven Wright

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Soren Kierkegaard

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich