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Related JOHN GREEN TAHEREH MAFI EMILY MAGUIRE W. E. B. DU BOIS HAROLD S. GENEEN Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. PROVERB A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.LIZ HAY On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, t... KELSEYLEIGH REBER Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we ha... DEBI GLIORI There was no real mitigation required for traffic for this project, which is why the city of Auburn ... PETE LEWIS JAMES BURKE ITALO CALVINO Elvis 30 No. 1 Hits NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal. INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token ofINITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining... INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go... DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ... DONALD NO They tell me to be quietINITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty. JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first. JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can. JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t... JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus... INITIALLY NO ERNEST WALTON In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all... CHARLES T. MUNGER When I lose control, I lose my cool and I pass the point of no RTN. NATALYA VOROBYOVA There is no crime in saying NO! Sometimes, you just have to SOTONYE ANGA No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin'... AVI ARAD ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b... JON SCIESZKA CORNELIA FUNKE If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. BRODI ASHTON Inside Ou... WARREN ZEVON GEORGE SANTAYANA Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Hu... L.R. KNOST I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose coun... JACQUELINE WILSON Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i... RHEA PERLMAN HERMANN HESSE (The) application far exceeds what is required by the ordinance and some of the information serves n... DENNIS ROBERTS No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ... ALBERTO MANGUEL It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit... TERRY TEACHOUT CLIFF FADIMAN HENRY BROOKS ADAMS ANONYMOUS STEPHAN GRELLET W. GLADDEN PATRICA FRIPP WILLIAM LYON PHELPS HENRY DAVID THOREAU JAMES T. FARRELL WALTER BAGEHOT AUSTIN PHELPS ED HOWE W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM FRAN LEBOWITZ HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. DR. EMMIT FOX FANNIE FLAGG UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. BIBLE ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti... MONTESQUIEU MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life. MALTI BHOJWANI JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO DIANE SETTERFIELD C.S. LEWIS Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta... M.R. JAMES TOBA BETA Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ... JOSHUA ISARD GARY SHTEYNGART SAMUEL JOHNSON Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading ... GEORGE F. WILL ALAN BENNETT CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amou... CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount a... CHARLES ADAMS No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount a... CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS C.S. LEWIS BINDI IRWIN The Relationship Between God And I Is Beyond Human Comprehension, Therefore, Pay No Attention To Any... ELIJAH ONYENMERIOGU JOHN GREEN R. H. HUTTON Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books ma... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PAUL AUSTER MARIA MONTESSORI VICTORIA SCHWAB I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trai... HEATHER DEMETRIOS A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart. JAIME CONTRERAS STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both. DEXTER PALMER JANE AUSTEN ALBERT CAMUS 8 Shortest stories, with beautiful meanings !DR. KARAN M PAI And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other ... DIET EMAN
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When you’re anonymous, other opinions shrink next to the sounds in your own head. DAN GROAT It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know.... DAN GROAT If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no s... DAN GROAT I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about f... DAN GROAT I’m not lookin’ to be anybody’s keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works ... DAN GROAT If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will ... DAN GROAT What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched. DAN GROAT There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren’t crosse... DAN GROAT I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men ... DAN GROAT One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change tha... DAN GROAT This country should treat good people better than they do. DAN GROAT They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how. DAN GROAT Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead. DAN GROAT It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others. DAN GROAT There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give... DAN GROAT Giants bleed like everybody else. DAN GROAT People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite. DAN GROAT It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you h... DAN GROAT Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost. DAN GROAT Saying it ain’t fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda sen... DAN GROAT Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future. DAN GROAT I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisti... DAN GROAT Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged. DAN GROAT He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men. DAN GROAT Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your... DAN GROAT As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eatin... DAN GROAT We who are dreamers and doers want only the chance to dream and do, to have an idea and to try to ca... DAN GROAT Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans. DAN GROAT Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be... DAN GROAT They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease. DAN GROAT Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle... DAN GROAT Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts. DAN GROAT Alaska is a land of great opportunity for scientific research. CHARLES GROAT Re-evaluation doesn't guarantee program growth. But because of this history of cooperation between U... CHARLES GROAT I don't think they folded, I just think we stepped our game up a lot. VICKY GROAT The USGS presence and efforts in Alaska, while significant, are clearly not adequate to meet the gro... CHARLES GROAT While the USGS presence and efforts in Alaska are significant, they are clearly not adequate to meet... CHARLES GROAT Some of the reason levees aren't as high as they're designed to be is because they sink. We don't ha... 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I don't think that's ever going to change. DAN HILL DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS DAN HICKS When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ... DAN HAWKINS We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v... DAN HAWKINS We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me. DAN HAWKINS We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&... DAN HAWKINS We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ... DAN HAWKINS There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la... DAN HAWKINS The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ... 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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... 
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... 
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea... 
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea... 
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ... 
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. 
A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise ... 
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all 
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if so... 
We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no les... 
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concep... 
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. 
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ... 
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. 
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any... 
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com... 
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. 
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. 
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. 
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. 
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. 
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. 
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. 
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. 
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. 
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". 
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. 
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th... 
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. 
Real lives have no end. Real books have no end. 
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind th... 
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo... 
A heart of stone doesn't know any better. 
She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favor... 
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and... 
And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly... 
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount a... 
For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s... 
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. 
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that... 
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me... 
[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... 
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two d... 
His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Infern... 
He said it was the kind of book you made your own. 
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. 
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv... 
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. 
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you... 
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. 
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so... 
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner. 
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be ... 
I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you. 
I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career. 
I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies. 
I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself. 
There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over. 
I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains. 
The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful... 