Read Your Book Case

Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Egan

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

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

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

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

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

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

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

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

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

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

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

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. - Mark Twain

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

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

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

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. - Giorgio Baglivi

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

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

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

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

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

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King

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

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater