If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Books Quotes
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
When I get a little money, I buy books; And if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
When I was young and had time to read, I had no books. Now that I am old and have the books, I have no time to read.
Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are entertained, we may modify some views we already hold, but we are more likely to find in books merely a confirmation of what is in our minds already: as in a love affair […]
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned – the biggest word of all – look.
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
