Cool Reading Room

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Manners are love in a cool climate. - Quentin Crisp

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. - Daniel Webster

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Unknown

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

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

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

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

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. - David Sedaris

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. - Tom Hanks

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

Many people's tombstones should read: 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' - Nicholas M Butler

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

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

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

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you. - Prince

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

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

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

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

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

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre

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

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

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

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner

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

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocket book groans more loudly than an empty stomach. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

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

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

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

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

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

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

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C S Lewis

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. - Steven Wright

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

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

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

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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