 Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
– Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
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Tag Archives: reading
Yoshida Kenko – To sit alone in the lamplight with a book
 To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare.
– Yoshida Kenko (1284 1350) |
Malala Yousafzai – Struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism
| So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. |
Dwight Eisenhower – Read every book in the library
 Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
– Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
Samuel Johnson – The greatest part of a writers time
 The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
Oscar Wilde – What you read when you don’t have to
 It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Jim Rohn – Some people claim that it is okay
 Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.
– Jim Rohn (1930-2009) |
Salman Rushdie – Falling in love with a book
 When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
– Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
Ray Bradbury – You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture
 The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us it’s all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson – Meek young men group up in libraries
 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
John Adams – Cherish the means of knowledge
 Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
– John Adams (1735-1826) |
Jim Rohn – Those who will not read
| Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
– Jim Rohn (1930-2009) |
