Piano Shelves

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Upright Piano: The noblest musical instrument - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

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

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

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

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

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

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

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

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

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

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper

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