Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffett

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison

Not all the news that's fit to print is fit to read. - Unknown

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C S Lewis

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. - Aneurin Bevan

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

Learn to say 'no.' It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. - Charles H Spurgeon

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Neine

I would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen. - Archie Bunker

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson