501 Quotes by Book

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Most critics don’t realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.