Captive Audience Twins

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

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

Book lovers never go to bed alone. - Unknown

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. - Rascal Flatts

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

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

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

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

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

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. - Billy Horschel

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

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

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

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. - Russell Lynes

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

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

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. - Unknown

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

I got something important here to read and sign and I gotta consecrate on that. - Archie Bunker

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

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

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

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

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

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

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

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead

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

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott

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