Library Loft

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffett

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

Everything comes to him who waits. Except a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all. - Groucho Marx

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. - Charles J Givens

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

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. - Laura Bush

You can never get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

Bookworm: A person who would rather read than eat, or a worm that would rather eat than read - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C S Lewis

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown