We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.
Gustav Klimt

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Gustav Klimt

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
Matt Groening

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
Matt Groening

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

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
Martin Bormann

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
Janice Dickinson

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Madeleine L'Engle

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Bill Murray

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
Sidney Sheldon

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas More

I love books.
Reese Witherspoon

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Ibrahim Babangida

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz