Quotes Tagged "reading"

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Literature is my Utopia

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.