“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Ronald Reagan on Politics
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on Books
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Continue reading
Isadora Duncan on Experience
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.” Continue reading
Arnold Lobel on Books
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” Continue reading
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Literature
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Continue reading
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