Quote of the Week #18

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Quote of the Week #17

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

 

Harper Lee

Quote of the Week #16

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. 

William Shakespeare

Quote of the Week #15

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

 

Maurice Sendak

Quote of the Week #14

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

Philip Pullman

Quote of the Week # 13

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” 

 George R R Martin

Quote of the Week #12

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 

Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Week # 11

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

 

Dylan Thomas

Quote of the Week #10

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” 

J K Rowling

Quote of the Week # 9

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” 

J. K. Rowling

Quote of the Week #8

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

 

J. R. R. Tolkien

Quote of the Week #7

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

 

 C.S. Lewis

Quote of the week #6

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

C. S. Lewis

Quote of the Week #5

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.” 

Arnold Lobel

Quote of the Week #4

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” 

Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Week #3

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Week #2

" A room without books is like a body without a soul"

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quote of the Week #1

“So many books, so little time.”

Frank Zappa