Mystery Books

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

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

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - Winston Churchill

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

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

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever. - Amit Kalantri

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

My problem with reading books is that I get distracted. By other books. - Unknown

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

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

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

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

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller

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

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

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

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

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. - Harry E. Fosdick

Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating. - Mother Angelica

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. - Gore Vidal

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

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey