Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your house.
- David Frost

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
- Andrew Ross

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if people didn’t spend three or four hours watching TV every day. What would we do with ourselves? My guess is there would be more talk around the dinner table, more Scrabble games with Grandma, more kites in the sky, and more walks in the park…
Of course, it would be pretty easy to find out, wouldn’t it?
- Ron Atchison

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who does not love reading.
- Macaulay

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you – such pleasure is beyond compare.
- Yoshida Kenko

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
- John Ruskin

Why don’t you write books people can read?
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Women with clean houses do not have finished books.
- Joy Held

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they are, the medicines of the soul.
- Paxton Hood

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
- J.H.Leigh Hunt

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare

In the end, scholarship is meaningful when only carried out for the sake of life. Life is the utmost importance. Scholarship without recourse to life is useless. Don’t read books with a hasty mind.
- Nishida Kitaro, Japanese Philosopher

Books are about life. And life is about knowing that you can triumph no matter what your circumstances are… you are not a victim. You can triumph.
- Oprah Winfrey

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books – that Tolstoy crap. People shouldn’t read that stuff. When we read those books, what purpose does it serve in this day and time?
- Mike Tyson Heavyweight boxing champion, Convicted rapist

Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.
- Al Capp (1909-1979) US cartoonist

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island…and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
- Walt Disney 1901-1966, Artist and Film Producer

Pick some good motivational and inspirational books and read. Read them, not like a bum, but in style and you will live in style.
- Rosie Cash

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) US writer

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
- Mark Twain

There’s no thief like a bad book.
- Italian Proverb

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) US writer

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon