Quotes - Asma Ghrairi (nabeul, 8000, Tunisia) Showing 361-390 of 602

#361

“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: inspirational, life

#362

“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: happiness, realization

79 likes

#363

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: censorship, public-opinion

71 likes

#364

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

88 likes

#365

“Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: burning-books

67 likes

#366

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

62 likes

#367

“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

56 likes

#368

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26916 likes

#369

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23111 likes

#370

“... 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

16625 likes

#371

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

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15814 likes

#372

“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

10865 likes

#373

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

tags: books, reading

9862 likes

#374

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

tags: books, reading

8665 likes

#375

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8703 likes

#376

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9085 likes

#377

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7337 likes

#378

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6418 likes

#379

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads

6288 likes

#380

“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

4941 likes

#381

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books

3547 likes

#382

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

3535 likes

#383

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

tags: books

2294 likes

#384

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, favorite-books

1624 likes

#385

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

1532 likes

#386

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

5243 likes

#387

“Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.”
― Marina Simcoe, The Real Thing

tags: books, reading, secrets

4 likes

#388