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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
I often have been asked what I do with my books once I have finished reading them. My answer: Keep them on a bookshelf to be reread at my leisure. You know I found it a truly awful book if I get rid of it.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is one of my heroes. I especially love her poem about what a woman should be able to do through out her life.
“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
Stephan Mallarme
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Posted on August 16th, 2006
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
~Author Unknown
Posted on August 15, 2006
A book is to me like a hat or coat – a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
~Charles B. Fairbanks
Posted on August 15th, 2006
So, I slept all day yesterday. I am not joking. So you get two posts today.
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
~Jim Fiebig
Posted on August 13th, 2006
While I may be the last living person in the U.S. who hasn’t seen Pirates 2 up until this point, I saw it today. Gods it was great! I so can’t wait to see the next one, and my fiance need a pirate hat. He looks just like Captain Jack in one. Sometimes I count myself the luckiest woman alive. I have a wonderful man that looks like Johnny Depp without all of the drama that comes with being a celebrity.
Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
~George Steiner
Posted on August 12th, 2006.
I thought this quote was appropriate for the political climate currently. My heart goes out to those that must make a flight in the next week.
