Quotes of Record - somelinesforyou

“ Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head. ”

- Princess Diana

“ When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine — everybody drinks water. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ”

- Charles W. Eliot

“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ History, a distillation of rumor. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ”

- Malcolm X

“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ”

- Aung San Suu Kyi

“ Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ”

- Irving Berlin

“ The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. ”

- Jan McKeithen

“ It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. ”

- Man Ray

“ The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.". ”

- Paxton Hood

“ Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We do not write as we want, but as we can. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire. ”

- George Sand

“ Thank you for sending me a copy of your book — I'll waste no time reading it. ”

- Moses Hadas

“ If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. ”

- Nora Ephron

“ A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ”

- James M. Barrie
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