Aliteracy Quotes

#1. Wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

John Irving

#2. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

#3. If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

Andrew Weil

#4. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

J. Michael Straczynski

#5. The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Mark Twain

#6. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

Cinda Williams Chima

#7. Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Anne Rice

#8. It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Jeff Vespa

#9. I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.

Nicole Peeler

#10. Believing in one's own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

Cindy Sherman

#11. Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#12. She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Hilda Van Stockum

#13. In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Edward Hopper

#15. Never ask a question if you can't handle the answer.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#17. Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

Mark Twain

#18. Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

#19. Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Mark Twain

#20. There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened.

Oscar Wilde

#21. The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.

Nicolas Gomez Davila