Lionel Barrymore Quotes

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Every single book is a challenge.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

It is my belief that books are living things.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

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

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

It is for truth that God created genius.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

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

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

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.