Quotes 381 till 400 of 443.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
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These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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