All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

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We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r...
PAMELA PAUL I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w...
CORY DOCTOROW We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
URSULA K. LE GUIN What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE At each one we would have more information at our disposal.
ARTHUR HILL Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Before there were books, we read each other.
LISA CRON We become the books we read.
MATTHEW KELLY Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio...
JOE QUEENAN Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has pro...
UMBERTO ECO Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and goo...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ‎"With each experience we grow and become more aware of the inner beauty that lies within us. Ulti...
RABBI YOSSI We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagi...
ALBERTO MANGUEL Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to ...
CECELIA AHERN We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ...
SUE TOWNSEND If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpec...
ITALO CALVINO With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest ...
THOMAS CARLYLE We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
BRAM STOKER Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is ak...
JOHN DINGELL Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER We also have our own library, because sometimes seniors forget about taking books back and they have...
CAROLYN COATES What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greate...
THOMAS CARLYLE All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe...
PETER DAVID Our imperfections make us unique and also BEAUTIFUL. Some beautiful things are more impressive when ...
ANGIE KARAN Our libraries are unique as each of us, but we have common goals.
DAWN LLOYD In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we nee...
SHERI DEW We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v...
D.H. LAWRENCE We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. I...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Last year we gave six scholarships of $1,000 each. This year we would like to give four scholarships...
ANGIE COX The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m...
ANNA GODBERSEN The Casey brothers are our leading scorers, but we have seven guys that are all within three or four...
DAVE MORSE But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL We're happy to lend a hand to this important program. Recycling continues to become a more and more ...
FRANK BOULTON Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ...
JOSHUA ISARD We who read regularly and who encourage our families to do likewise, may find it hard to accept that...
GLENN MURRAY If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself...
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were...
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Our legal careers got more stellar with each passing year.
ED BRYANT We need to watch film as a group more. We need to learn our plays a lot better and learn the protect...
IMMANUEL HUTCHERSON Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ...
RANDY PAUSCH Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books...
BRIAN WHITE A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more el...
JOHN HUMPHRYS All the books in all the libraries in all the world are of no use if little Johnny can't read.
RAIN BOJANGLES We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We ...
ROBERT MCCAMMON Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it s...
ROBERTO BOLAñO Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL The fourth graders raised more than $3,500 that was earmarked to purchase books for the Bay-Waveland...
JANET CALLISON We are constantly checking our circulation system database which tells us who the books are issued t...
DEB BEISELL She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
LEMONY SNICKET My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we h...
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NICK MORAN I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
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NICK HARKAWAY As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
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NICK ROBINSON I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
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NICK BOSTROM

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

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Nick Hornby

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

Nick Hornby

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