Cool Reading Room

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Egan

Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell

Book Jacket: A fable of contents - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. - Daniel Webster

You live several lives while reading. - William Styron

Never read a book that is not a year old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a volume, if you how to read him. - W. E. Channing

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

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy. - Groucho Marx

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

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

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

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright

I have the body of an 18-year-old. I keep it in the fridge. - Spike Milligan

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

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

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

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

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

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

If we shouldn't eat at night, why is there a light in the fridge? - Unknown

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

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

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

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

Life is a storybook, and those who do not travel only read but a page. - Ravi Zacharias

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

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

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

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

The summer movies are coming out! My advice: just stay home and burn a good book. - Stephen Colbert

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you. - Prince

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

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin be the rolling stone." - Archie Bunker

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

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre

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

All the days ordained for me
Were written in your book
Before one of them came to be. - Psalms 139:16

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocket book groans more loudly than an empty stomach. - Franklin D Roosevelt

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

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool. - Reese Witherspoon

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

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

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler

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

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

Unless a man has considerable skill and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by. - Townsend Whelen

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Soren Kierkegaard

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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