477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Equally, we have taken the prudent step to book the Millennium Stadium.

We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago.