Captive Audience Twins

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

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

Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffett

Every person is a book, each year a chapter. - Mark Twain

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

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

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

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

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

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C S Lewis

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp. - Tom Clancy

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. - Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program. - John F Kennedy

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

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

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

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

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at eighteen and at forty-eight. - Ezra Pound

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

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

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Cosimo de Medici

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

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

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

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

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

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

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

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

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

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott

To read means to obtain meaning from words, and legibility is that quality which enables words to be read easily, quickly, and accurately. - John C Tarr

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