System Books To Read Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

Simon Sinek

#2. I hate golf. It's the genteel version of seal-clubbing, only not as much fun.

Lauren Beukes

#3. In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

Barry Manilow

#5. College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

John Cage

#6. To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

Alan Bennett

#7. Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

Mary Beth McKenzie

#8. I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

Michael Pollan

#9. The price for men in motion is the occasional collision ...

Carroll Smith

#10. The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Anton Chekhov

#11. Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being.

Asa Don Brown