Quotes of Register - somelinesforyou

“ A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ”

- Anatole France

“ I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ”

- Anthony Marcel

“ I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off. ”

- David Steinberg

“ Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ”

- Ezra

“ It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too. ”

- Colleen McCullough

“ If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ”

- Thurgood Marshall

“ We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ”

- Thom Gunn

“ Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books. ”

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Toni Morrison

“ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books. ”

- Alan King

“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”

- Allan Bloom

“ I always liked the intensity of the recording. ”

- Chris Bailey

“ When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release. ”

- Roger Corman

“ Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read. ”

- Unknown

“ What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ”

- Helen Terry

“ If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book… ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting. ”

- Roger Waters

“ When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ The book you don't read won't help. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. ”

- Oprah Winfrey
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