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Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Your library is your Paradise. - Erasmus

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Creativity is contagious, pass it on. - Albert Einstein

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

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

Never read a book that is not a year old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. - Cecil B. DeMille

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. - Unknown

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing

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

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

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. - Earl Nightingale

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

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

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

No wonder the teacher knows so much - she has the book. - Edgar W Howe

In the book of life, the answers aren't on the back. - Charlie Brown

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

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

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

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

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

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E M Forster

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

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

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

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

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

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. - John Grisham

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

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

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

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

If you believe you have a foolproof system you have failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. - Frank W. Abagnale

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

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' - Steven Wright

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

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

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

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

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

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

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. - Brene Brown

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. - Barbara Ehrenreich