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Book Of Ecclesiasticles - Archie Bunker

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

Keep it simple but significant. - Don Draper

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath

Appoint: The thing at the end of your pencil. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Preface: That part of a book which is never read. - Unknown

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

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

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

When you read the riot act, be prepared to enforce it. - Saying

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

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

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

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

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. - Oscar Wilde

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

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. - Billy Horschel

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

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

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

You can never get a cup of tea big 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

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

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

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Internet: The best library in the world, but with all its books strewn across the floor - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

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

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

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. - Flannery O'Connor

A library should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

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

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. - Julie Kagawa

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

The best thing in the famous novels at present is that one does not need to read them; one knows them already. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

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

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

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

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

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 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

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

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg