Lindsey Gray > Lindsey's Quotes

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

“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

“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

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

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

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

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

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain