Library Closed

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

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

Book lovers never go to bed alone. - Unknown

You live several lives while reading. - William Styron

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

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffett

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy. - Groucho Marx

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac. - Archie Bunker

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

Book Ends: The part of a book many girls read first - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

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

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

Not all the news that's fit to print is fit to read. - Unknown

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

Show me where Stalin is born, and I'll show you a communist plot. - George S. Kaufman

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

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

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

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

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

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

The summer movies are coming out! My advice: just stay home and burn a good book. - Stephen Colbert

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

It is my custom to call this book 'An Anatomy of All the Parts of the Soul.' - John Calvin

Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin be the rolling stone." - Archie Bunker

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. - Dorothy Parker

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

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

Learn to say 'no.' It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. - Charles H Spurgeon

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

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

Bookworm: A person who would rather read than eat, or a worm that would rather eat than read - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow. - John Wesley

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

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

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read an write, everyone would limp and stutter. - Mark Twain

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

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen

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

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

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

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

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. - Ron Santo

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

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. - Charles Mingus

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

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

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler

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

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

Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. - Samuel Johnson

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

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