Tim Pollock > Tim's Quotes

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
― Henry Ford

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers