“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
— Stephen King“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
— Shannon L. Alder“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
— Grace Willows“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
— Jess C Scott“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
— G.K. Chesterton“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
— Jess C Scott“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”
— Shannon L. Alder“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
— Roger Ebert“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
— Mark Twain“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
— Fran Lebowitz“Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”
— Israelmore Ayivor“فكر قبل أن تتكلم، واقرأ قبل أن تفكر”
— Fran Lebowitz“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?”
— Jess C Scott“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
— Kamand Kojouri“I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.”
— Kamand Kojouri