Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffet

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac. - Archie Bunker

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. - Mark Twain

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Cosimo de Medici

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

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

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

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

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater