Quotes - Marta (Neferettt) (Wabrzezno, 78, Poland) Showing 1-30 of 96

#1

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35719 likes

#2

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: kundera, poetic, profound, sabina, tereza, tomas

1009 likes

#3

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

4976 likes

#4

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: pain

13953 likes

#5

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven

1696 likes

#6

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

865 likes

#7

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16639 likes

#8

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: heart, mind

3451 likes

#9

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9859 likes

#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

152407 likes

#11

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25552 likes

#12

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27942 likes

#13

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23596 likes

#14

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20770 likes

#15

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

8305 likes

#16

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: books, life

3685 likes

#17

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15872 likes

#18

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books

5981 likes

#19

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books, magic, magic-books

4501 likes

#20

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, books

3548 likes

#21

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading

3263 likes

#22

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: books

2288 likes

#23

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21569 likes

#24

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13149 likes

#25

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20273 likes

#26

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13931 likes

#27

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8664 likes

#28

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

tags: reading, writing

13086 likes

#29

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

7785 likes

#30

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5884 likes

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