“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tag Archives: books
Quote of the day – Nora Ephron
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
– Nora Ephron
Joke of the day – Only one wish
Three guys are convicted of a very serious crime, and they’re all sentenced to twenty years in solitary confinement. They’re each allowed one thing to bring into the cell with them.
The first guy asks for a big stack of books. The second guy asks for his wife. And the third guy asks for two hundred cartons of cigarettes.
At the end of the twenty years, they open up the first guy’s cell. He comes out and says, “I studied so hard. I’m so bright now, I could be a lawyer. It was terrific.”
They open up the second guy’s door. He comes out with his wife, and they’ve got five new kids. He says. “It was the greatest thing of my life. My wife and I have never been so close. I have a beautiuful new family. I love it.”
They open up the third guy’s door, and he’s slapping at his pockets, going “Anybody got a match?”
Read a book …
…and escape. When you are reading it is very hard to think of anything else other than what you are reading. So, it offers total escape.
Read a book today…
…in bed at night for a few minutes,
…while waiting in a queue,
…during your child’s swimming lessons,
…on a bus or train on your way to work.
Quote of the day – Benjamin Franklin
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
Quote of the day – C S Lewis
“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis
Quote of the day – Hermann Hesse
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” – Hermann Hesse
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