The Quote Page!

[suzy1124]

who said : " go w/the flow ?"...heeehee

Abook is a dream that you hold in your hand...Neil Gaimin..

[textcritter]

"You can never steal enough. But you can try." The sentiment must have been
successful. It has many fathers and never spent a minute in an orphanage.

[suzy1124]

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking...Haruki Murakami

[rssllue]

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

[suzy1124]

Always read something that 'll make you look good if you die in the middle of it, P.J. O'Rourke

[rssllue]

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci

[suzy1124]

Great books help you understand , and they help you feel understood, John Green...

[mui-scrimp]

Fools' names and fools' faces are often seen in public places
-Harriet the Spy

-- 26 Oct 2014, 22:56 --

"I understand," is not the same as "I agree."
- actually, one of my friends said this, I just thought it was an interesting point...

[rssllue]

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

[suzy1124]

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book....Marcel Proust...

[Carlton Carr]

I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want one of my relatives - who's never read anything but the Sears catalogue - to read it.

Barbara Kingsolver

[rssllue]

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

E. B. White

[suzy1124]

Beware of the person of one book............Thomas Aquinas

[Nikki72]

"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

[pretzelsnow]

My favorite quotes are below in the purple in my signature.