Cool Reading Room

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

Lose your cool - play the fool. - W. Andrew Welker

Manners are love in a cool climate. - Quentin Crisp

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffett

Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison

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

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. - Emily Dickinson

People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

People who shine from within don't need the spotlight. - Unknown

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright

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

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

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

Individuals who act too 'cool' often freeze under pressure. - Unknown

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. - John Barrymore

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

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

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

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

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

Book Censor: A person who reads so much he gets asterisks in front of his eyes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

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

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. - Karen Russell

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

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

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

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C S Lewis

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

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

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. - Langston Hughes

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

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

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians, except for the occasional mountain lion steak. - Ted Nugent

All the days ordained for me
Were written in your book
Before one of them came to be. - Psalms 139:16

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

The rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story. - Andy McNab

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

The best thing in the famous novels at present is that one does not need to read them; one knows them already. - Henry David Thoreau

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

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

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

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed a hundred percent of the time. - Nora Volkow

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

Accountant: 1. A noble insect; 2. A dutiful book balancer whose role within a corporation is to protect it from creative ideas. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." - Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

In this age of microblogging and two-second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. - Tim Frick

As a rule man is a fool,
When it's hot he wants it cool,
When it's cool he wants it hot,
Always wanting what is not. - Unknown

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. - Robin S Sharma

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper