Lesley Looper > Lesley's Quotes

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.”
― Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”
― Kathrine Switzer, 26.2: Marathon Stories

“Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.”
― Rett MacPherson

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I stock up on fancy food because I’m also planning on morphing into a master chef and actually cooking instead of just eating nachos for dinner every night.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr