Samuel Johnson Quotes

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

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

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

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

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."

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the table.

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!

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.