Hello Book Lovers, What is your favourite Literacy Quote/Quotes?
Hello Book Lovers, What is your favourite Literacy Quote/Quotes?
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Hello Book Lovers, What is your favourite Literacy Quote/Quotes?
A Book is a gift you can open and open again. By Garrison Keillor ?
agood book is like jealous mistress, it can never let u go, even under the rain…
“So many books, so little time” – Frank Zappa
That would be my favourite. I thought that *I* made that up! lol
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing ” = Helen Keller & “Love is like the wind you can’t see it but you can feel it” = Nicholas Sparks ❤❤
“I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Every Secret Thing
I can’t believe there is a book by Susanna Kearsley I’ve not read. This must be corrected. 🙂
LJ Roberts, she published this one under a pseudonym: Emma Cole.
@LJ she has a new release in October
I have some of her Emma Cole books and am looking forward to Bellweather.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
― Anna Quindlen
“Now I’ve done murder.” Scarlett O’Hara after shooting the looting Yankee in the face.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Mark Twain.
I believe that was Groucho Marx.
@Susan I stand corrected! You’re right!
They both were funny guys with mustaches 😉
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved reading. One does not love breathing.” ~Harper Lee (TKAM)
All literature is yet to be written. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1838??
The pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment. (Dean Koontz)
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo
Work is the curse of the drinking class. Oscarwilde
“Holding anger is a poison…It eats you from inside…We think that by hating someone we hurt them…But hatred is a curved blade…and the harm we do to others…we also do to ourselves.” – Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)
Its our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Albus Dumbledore (JK Rowling)
uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“But then anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”
― Virginia Woolf
“Grief is a volatile state of being.” Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” — Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
“True gospel humility is not thinking less of oneself but rather thing of oneself less.” CS Lewis
(Not a quote from books, but about books) “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” ― Anna Quindlen
I thought that posts about books and reading was what the OP was looking for.
Ok…how about this…
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Such is the nature of evil, it corrupt us all. We cannot fight it and stay pure.” – Hero in the Shadow by David Gemmell.
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Samuel Johnson
And: “Tenui musam meditamur avena.” (Translation – “We
cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.” Sydney Smith, Anglican Minister, Author, Educator – His suggested motto for the literary magazine “The Edinburgh Review”
“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know *I’m* mad?” asked Alice. “You must be,” said the cat. “Or you wouldn’t have come here.” Lewis Carol, Alice in Wonderland.
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. -Neil Gaiman
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. -Haruki Murakami “Norwegian Wood “
“The first week at August’s was a consolation. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time out, the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy upon your beat-up life.” – The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
Loved that book!
To know one’s strengths, to know how to improve them, and to know what one cannot do – are the keys to continous learning. – Daily Drucker
“The trouble with mornings is that they come when you’re not awake.” (From “A Window for Death,” a NeroWolfe novella by Rex Stout)