Stephane add a quote by Oscar Wilde

Wed, 25 May 2011 14:57:43 -0700

"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

Stephane add a quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:04:29 -0700

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -- Jorge Luis Borges

Stephane add a quote by Madeleine L'Engle

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:04:39 -0700

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." -- Madeleine L'Engle

Stephane add a quote by Mark Twain

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:05:05 -0700

"′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read." -- Mark Twain

Stephane add a quote by Oscar Wilde

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:07:15 -0700

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." -- Oscar Wilde

Stephane add a quote by Thomas Jefferson

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:21 -0700

"I cannot live without books." -- Thomas Jefferson

Stephane add a quote by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:25 -0700

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." -- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Stephane add a quote by C.S. Lewis

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:31 -0700

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." -- C.S. Lewis

Stephane add a quote by Gustave Flaubert

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:43 -0700

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." -- Gustave Flaubert

Stephane add a quote by William Styron

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:49 -0700

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." -- William Styron

Stephane add a quote by Oscar Wilde

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:11:08 -0700

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." -- Oscar Wilde

Stephane add a quote by William Shakespeare

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:11:33 -0700

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." -- William Shakespeare

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:12:12 -0700

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:12:36 -0700

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:16:24 -0700

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:20:19 -0700

"Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a start, none of us know what kind of an effort this represents for the individual reader. It could be his or her first full-length adult novel; it might be the book that finally reveals the purpose and joy of reading to someone who has hitherto been mystified by the attraction books exert on others. And anyway, reading for enjoyment is what we should all be doing. I don't mean we should all be reading chick lit or thrillers (although if that's what you want to read, it's fine by me, because here's something no one else will tell you: if you don't read the classics, or the novel that won this year's Booker Prize, then nothing bad will happen to you; more importantly,nothing good will happen to you if you do); I simply mean that turning pages should not be like walking through thick mud. The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. "Good" books can be pretty awful sometimes." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:20:40 -0700

"And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. " -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:28:52 -0700

"One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:37:06 -0700

"I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:37:16 -0700

"It's not what you like but what you are like that's important." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:38:51 -0700

"I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:40:35 -0700

"Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:45:19 -0700

"It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead" -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:46:56 -0700

"A couple of months ago, I became depressed by the realization that I'd forgotten pretty much everything I've ever read. I have, however, bounced back: I am now cheered by the realization that if I've forgotten everything I've ever read then I can read some of my favorite books again as if for the first time." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Nick Hornby

Wed, 25 May 2011 15:47:19 -0700

"It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already." -- Nick Hornby

Stephane add a quote by Charles Darwin

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:53:15 -0800

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." -- Charles Darwin

Stephane add a quote by Oscar Wilde

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:53:44 -0800

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." -- Oscar Wilde

Stephane add a quote by oscar wilde

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:57:01 -0800

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." -- oscar wilde

Stephane add a quote by Tina Fey

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:08:45 -0700

"Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone." -- Tina Fey

Stephane add a quote by Herman Melville

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:34:50 -0700

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." -- Herman Melville