Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. — Joineriana
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Louisa May Alcott
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life — Meher Baba
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. — John Milton
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. — George Orwell
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak
Only one book is worth reading: the heart. — Ajahn Chah
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Cornelia Funke
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. — Audrey Hepburn
A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. — Katrina Mayer
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Short Favourite Book Quotes
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch
Books may well be the only true magic. — Alice Hoffman
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Abdul Kalam
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
In a good book the best is between the lines. — Swedish Proverbs
Books worth reading are worth re-reading. — Holbrook Jackson
Books are the mirrors of the soul. — Virginia Woolf
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Favorite Book Quotes
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. — Beverly Cleary
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders. — Rupert Grint
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. — Jack Kerouac
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. — Meg Cabot
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it. — Les Claypool
Favourite Quotes
I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day. — Jon Foreman
Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think. — Prince
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different. — ASAP Rocky
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. — Mark Twain
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. — Alfred Armand Montapert
I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. — Melanie Martinez
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. — Robert Fortune
My Favourite Quotes
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time. — Janet Street-Porter
I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design. — Paula Scher
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it. — Jack Handey
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically. — Jon Richardson
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. — Dakota Fanning
My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny. — Liu Wen
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog. — Patrick Demarchelier
I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character. — MyAnna Buring
Favourite Songs Quotes
When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break. — Sonu Nigam
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs. — Dolly Parton
Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to. — Aino Jawo
Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music. — Guy Berryman
I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind. — Charli XCX
WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.
I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength. — Immortal Technique
My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid. — Richard Hawley
[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover. — Kanye West
I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it. — Lizzy Plapinger
Favourite Places Quotes
I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world. — Maria Sharapova
After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God. — Eric Cantona
My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite. — Sayings
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas. — Phife Dawg
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. — Roger Moore
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident. — Rufus Sewell
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. — Karlie Kloss
Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely. — Kendrick Lamar
Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places. — Diego Luna
Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places. — G-Eazy
Famous Book Quotes
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.” — Charles Spurgeon
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation. — Dwight L. Moody
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. — Noah Webster
There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention. — Nouman Ali Khan
Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an. — Uthman ibn Affan
Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.
The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching? — Leonard Ravenhill
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself. — Charles Hodge
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands. — Jeffrey R. Holland
This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand.
It's just hard to swallow. — Sayings
Favourite Things Quotes
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. — Albert Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw
Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe! — Ikkyu
Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint. — Cy Twombly
I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her. — Aretha Franklin
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. — Arne Jacobsen
My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable. — Billy Childish
I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines. — David Walliams
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. — Colin Greenwood
Love To Read Quotes
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. — B. F. Skinner
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. — Ansel Adams
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky
I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service. — Emo Philips
I look for the good in people. Sometimes I get hurt for it, but it's rare and it's worth it. You may hear me say optimistic things that sound naive. I'm not naive. I've read too much history to be naive. I just think love wins out over the darker parts of human nature in the end. — Lex Fridman
I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't. — Tim McGraw
I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it's like I'm there just talking with them. — Steven Gundry
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time. — David Heyman
Read what you love until you love to read. — Naval Ravikant
If there's something you really love, something that you're excited to learn, something that you're energized when you hear about, speak about, or read about, that's where you want to throw your energy. — Jay Shetty
Great Book Quotes
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. — Shimon Peres
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ. — Queen Victoria
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. — Dick Gregory
Favorite Song Quotes
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again. — TobyMac
You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months. — Anna Kendrick
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning. — Taylor Swift
We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice. — Shawn Amos
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. — Stephen Malkmus
My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is. — Tyler, The Creator
My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people. — Jeff Buckley
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them. — Deborah Cox
'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. — Tom Petty
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. — David Walliams
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. — Roald Dahl
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. — Peter York
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' — Bill Gates
I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far. — Markus Zusak
[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time. — Kevin Spacey
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome
When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it. — Clive James
My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure. — Rick Yancey
People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to be you and to try to engage with your child. If you're constantly working, so you don't have that much time to spend with them, but you have 20 minutes at the end of the day to read them their favourite book, children will remember that. — Liv Tyler
Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it. — Michael Morpurgo
You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child. — Michelle Pfeiffer
I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and have published my ninth book "L'envers à l'endroit" last year. I am currently working on a dictionary of my favourite words. — Sonia Rykiel
I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody. — Regina Spektor
I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds. — John Green
Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book. — Trevor Phillips
I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book. — Tessa Jowell
For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions! — Michael Scott
I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages. — Michael Scott
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'. — Tracy Chevalier
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara. — Carolina Herrera
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books. — Paullina Simons
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank. — Linwood Barclay
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager. — Ned Beauman
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence. — Akira Kurosawa
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another. — Charlotte Mason
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods. — Marcel Proust
As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues to evolve and mature like a true cat. Catwoman, is a unique breed, never taking the same form twice. But whatever form she takes, she'll always reign supreme. A dog maybe man's best friend, but a cat is everyone's favourite feline fatale. — Eartha Kitt
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte
She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be. — Kate Morton
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