“So tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.”
-Billy Crystal 2012
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson- 1803-1882
Good to know …..Even Ralph Waldo Emerson cannot remember the books he read. At least we are in good company!
“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn’t become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.”
Yann Martel 1963-
(author of Beatrice and Virgil, Life of Pi)
“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 1933-1987
Sounds familiar… doesn’t it? Except for the beard of course! What is in your stack?
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
“You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
-Charlie “Tremendous” Jones 1927 – 2008
“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
-Anatole France 1844-1924
This quote made me laugh! Some things never change!
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
-Rabbi Harold Kushner 1935-
A great quote by the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People!
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
-Lemony Snicket 1970-
You can trust me! I always have at least one book with me. You never know when you are going to be stuck somewhere with nothing to do! Stuck in traffic? Waiting for a doctors appointment? Early for a lunch date? Why waste time? Might as well read a book!
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
~Gore Vidal 1925-
I love this quote! Something to think about!