Read Quotes

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

John Hancock

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

Besa Kosova

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Karl Lagerfeld

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

John Green

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

John Green

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Pratchett

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Charles Kennedy

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Virginia Woolf