John Milton Quotes

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.