#book

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#doing #education #geek #high #high school

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#chemistry #could #dragons #dungeons #engaged

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#down #facts #kind #loose #more

You know, I don't only play for the record books. ↗

— Roger Federer

#i #know #only #play #record

A great book is like great evil. ↗

— Callimachus

#evil #great #great book #great evil #like

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#classic #finished #never #say #saying

My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used. ↗