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A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.

£500.” He hisses furiously at me. “I can’t believe I’ve spent £500 on an entire new wardrobe and a new haircut – one that I didn’t even want my I add!” As he talks, I skip happily, a dreamy smile plastered all over my face. I’ve had, without a shadow of a doubt, the best day ever. “I can.” I answer, my voice rising several decibels, as I lose myself, currently, on cloud nine. “I’ve loved spending your money. It feels awesome!

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movie would ever do. For example, when I watched the movie “The Hours” I was fascinated by the story. Just a year later I decided to read the book. And what was my surprise that I was even more dazzled by its writings than I was by the images… The images in my head were more vivid than the film could ever transport me to that feminine universe that the author was trying (and so successfully granted me) to conceive…

A book can give you an experience of someone’s life in a few hours, and this is far more profitable than any sale that’s going on.

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.

A book is a compilation of unexpressed expressions to connect the unknown knowns

A book is a dear friend who has a thousand things to say.

A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

a book is a ship which carries you around the world while you are sitting on your couch.

A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot more invaluable treasures. Gift your child a book - introduce them to the joy of reading.

A book is a match in the smoking second between strike and flame. Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends. He’s right, but I’m right, too. Books can really hurt you.

A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.

A book is like a vacation for the brain.

A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

¿Acaso importaba, se preguntó mientras caminaba hacia Bond Street, importaba que inevitablemente tuviera que dejar de existir? Todo eso tendría que proseguir sin ella: ¿le causaba pesar?¿O no era un consuelo pensar que con la muerte terminaba todo?

Accepting ourselves, okay I like such type of girls, I like watching porn, I like such kind of music, okay I like such kind off books like horror and sci-fi, I like deathstep as a music... It should be find I should accept myself people should accept me as the guy who I am truly, people should accept themselfs also.

Accidentally moving someone’s bookmark is like realizing you gave bad directions and not telling them.

A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty.

Act correctly. Incorrect action cannot be justified by incorrect action. An incorrect action taken to cover an incorrect action is doubly incorrect.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

Adam asked, "What is he doing, anyway?" "Peeing." "Trust Lynch to deface a place like this five minutes after getting here." "Deface? Marking his territory." "He must own more of Virginia than your father, then." "I don't think he's ever used an indoor toilet, now that I think about it.

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

​Âdem ile Havva: Âdem ile Havva, yasak elmanın tadına varınca, farklılıklarını gördüler ilk defa. Utanıp incir yapraklarıyla örtmek istediler çıplaklıklarını. Ama birinde bir, ötekinde üç incir yaprağı vardı. Sayı saymayı da öğrenince, bir daha hiç aynı olamadılar.

A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

After all, she understood people so well, as well as Fredrick understood his library.

After family, books are the things that make me happy. Books are my solace, my sanctuary from the everyday cares. If I could I would make reading my soul occupation.

After her declaration to become a ghost, her sister had given a nervous half-laugh and said that she didn't want Adelaide to do anything to scare her. Adelaide had agreed, but said she'd move things around her home just to confuse her. And laughed too. Her husband, Simon, had told her not to be morbid and reminded her that the consultant wasn't sure. It was possible she might live.

After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?' 'And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—' 'Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.

9 likes Like Facebook_icon “Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything. What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT. Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice: "Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?" Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that? How?! It must've been magic.

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

A book a week I heave a sigh; That Slogan's peremptory cry I will not hear, I will not heed. How can They say that I should need The book They bid me weekly buy? But Slogans change, as days go by; My Psyche listens, fluttering shy, To newer message "Come and Read A book a week." To read! to read! O wings that fly O'er sun-kissed lands, through clouded sky That bear us on where Great ones lead! I too must follow, so I plead For magic wings. I'll read (or try) A book a week!

A book can become your best companion in times of crisis. Not only do you learn in the journey of your pages, but rediscover yourself, with your virtues and defects ... often makes you question everything, even life itself. The books are fantastic, as they not only transport you to other places and the awakening of sensations, curiosity, laughter, hilarity, sadness, etc. Other times, it can give you a quiet space in truculent moments, and lead you to a level of peace, acceptance, healthy optimism, that I will never tire of recommending it. Never stop reading, there are no excuses ... there are always some minutes in any place, at any time and a huge universe for all tastes !!!

A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a book? You think that's worse than murder?" The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like "What's so bad about genocide?

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

A book feels like a thing alive in the moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang off the printing press - a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?