Cold Books

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

When I want to read a book, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

Preface: That part of a book which is never read. - Unknown

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. - William Hazlitt

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it. - Anderson Cooper

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. - Billy Horschel

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E M Forster

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

The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

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

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

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

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. - Stuart Keate

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book and a bubble bath, I'm a happy girl. - Shiloh Walker

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. - Barbara Ehrenreich