Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
In 250 years, reading and writing will have turned out to be a fad.
If you don't have a book, you don't know how a bloody program work!
The terabyte boundary is going to cause movies to have the same status as films and digital books.
I kept thinking this book tells a story that Britain does not want to remember.