I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not. | |
— Nick Hornby | |
[A similar quote was found at one of the blogs I follow: A Pondering Mind | |
The specific post is located at: All The Books We Own – A Pondering Mind | |
This slightly longer version came from: AZ Quotes.com | |
Both are highly recommended. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Clear Global Standards |
A Girl Like You | |
2020 | Life’s Mysteries |
2019 | I Doubt I Ever Will |
2018 | Who Will Thank (If Not Remember) Me |
2017 | Reinforced Learning |
2016 | I Choose To Believe |
2015 | What They Don’t Teach You At School |
2014 | Still Trying To Die (5) |
2013 | Honest Doubt |
2012 | Choice |
2011 | Ownership Of Thought |
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
A Little Epiphany
Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged A Pondering Mind, A-Z Quotes.com, Books, Epiphany, Nick Hornby, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes on April 11, 2022| 4 Comments »
Overbooked
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Neighbors, Nooks, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Robert Southey, Rooms on February 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book. | |
— Robert Southey | |
[We recently had a neighbor drop in. She had been discussing books with my wife and wanted to drop off one she had just finished and was recommending. (Readers are the biggest “pushers” in the world.) Anyway, the neighbor was saying she had far too many books and she needed to donate / give away some of them. My wife chuckled. The neighbor looked quizzical… I opened the door to one of my rooms and she saw a wall of books / LP’s / CD’s approximately 18ft long and shelved from floor to ceiling (mostly books). I said that’s only one of two rooms. My wife thanked her and said she’ll be happy to borrow some books. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | One Month In: Learning To Play Guitar |
Cause The Melody Keeps Haunting Me | |
2020 | Working On My 2019 Tax Returns |
2019 | Three Beliefs |
2018 | He Found Them On-Line |
2017 | Maybe In A Future World |
2016 | Largely A Mystery |
2015 | Tools And Weapons |
2014 | Likes And Dislikes |
2013 | Pillars Of Learning |
2012 | Another JCoM Review |
Move It | |
2011 | Expected Value |
Too Heavy A Burden
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Books, Burdens, Family, Hate, Philosophy, Quotes, U.S. Representative John Lewis on October 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house… and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear. | |
— Rep. John Lewis | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Compare, Contrast And Learn |
Some Dreams Do Come True | |
Just In Case | |
2019 | Can I Get A Witness? |
2018 | I’d Still Like To Try It Out |
2017 | In Every Thing |
2016 | Future Halo |
2015 | The Hard Way Every Time |
2014 | Indispensable Wits |
2013 | I’d Like To |
2012 | 2012 National League Champions – San Francisco Giants!! |
2nd Viewing – No Change | |
Light Shining Out of Darkness | |
2011 | Just Kickin It |
Are These The “Real” Protectors Of America’s Constitution? | |
2010 | Giants Advance To 2010 World Series!!! |
Start Reading / Start Building
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Books, Education, George Washington, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes on June 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. | |
― George Washington | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Nurturing Trees And Plants |
2019 | Seeking Needs |
2018 | Not Sure Anyway… |
All Clear Nuclear And Burn | |
2017 | Forms Of Conservation |
2016 | Oh, So Lacking |
2015 | e pluribus unum |
2014 | Nothing So Far Removed |
2013 | Positions |
2012 | Two Errors |
2011 | Long Live The King! |
A Chance Meeting Finds A Way
Posted in Other Blogs, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Bookshops, Cecelia Ahern, I Didn't Have My Glasses On, Magic, Other Blogs, Quotes, Reading on May 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books — whether it’s strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives. | |
― Cecelia Ahern | |
[This quote is available at multiple locations on the web, but I originally found it as a post on one of the blogs I follow: I didn’t have my glasses on…. | |
The specific post is: the magic of books. Which can be found at: https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2021/05/08/24719/ | |
Please give the site a visit if you have some spare time. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | The Magnitude Of The Challenge |
2019 | Still Tearing, Still Being Rewarded |
2018 | Nothing More, Nothing Less |
2017 | Memorial Day – 2017 |
No Wonder I’m Smiling | |
2016 | Thinking Science Fictional |
2015 | Dawn Is Coming |
2014 | Back When I Was A Firebrand |
2013 | Pen In Hand |
Word Up! | |
2012 | Disturbing |
Trying To Keep Up | |
2011 | Unreliable And Selective |
2010 | Adult-Onset Athlete |
Aging Well
Posted in Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Friends, Logs, Quotes, Wine on March 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends. | |
— Alfonso X of Spain | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Always |
2019 | #45 Is More Of A Piddle Than A Puddle |
2018 | Found Out |
A Message To The “Wanna Be” Dictator On Leadership | |
2017 | Still Waiting… |
2016 | Same Old, Same Old |
2015 | Shout! |
2014 | I Hear Voices |
2013 | Ethics And Standards |
2012 | Swing Higher |
2011 | Convicted For Life |
Magical Voices In My Head
Posted in History, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Carl Sagan, History, Magic, Quotes on July 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The whole idea of what happens when you read a book, I find absolutely stunning. Here’s some product of a tree, little black squiggles on it, you open it up, an inside your head is the voice of someone speaking, who may have been dead 3000 years, and there he is talking directly to you, what a magical thing that is. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | And I’m Not Letting Go |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
And The Same Goes For Blogs / Posts
Posted in Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Blogging, Books, Meaning, Quotes, Reading, W. Somerset Maugham, Writing on July 11, 2020| 2 Comments »
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. | |
–– W. Somerset Maugham | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Not Enough |
2018 | One Thing We Do Know |
2017 | Preservation |
2016 | Going Back |
2015 | Just For Today |
2014 | Reaching For Destiny |
2013 | Still Just Passing Through |
2012 | Live Or Die |
2011 | On Secession |
2010 | A Rocky Weekend |
I Resemble That Remark… (7!)
Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Books, Bookstores, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Encyclopedia, How To Hug, Humor, Quotes on December 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
There is an amusing story of a young man who decides he wants to learn how to better relate to others. He goes to a bookstore and is hard pressed to find anything to help him. He finally comes up a book that seem helpful. It is titled, “How to Hug.” When he returns home he finds that he has bought Volume Nine of an encyclopedia! | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
[That sounds exactly like something I would do… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Mueller Investigation Comparison To #LyingDonald |
2017 | #DonTheCon And Russian Collusion |
2016 | Balance The Truth |
2015 | Still Itchin’ |
2014 | One Life |
2013 | Reason Is Your Light |
2012 | Bordering Manhood |
2011 | Even Christ Couldn’t |
What Do Your Children See You Doing?
Posted in Education, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Quotes, Reading, Students on July 1, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. | |
— Leo Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Is #45 STILL Losing America |
2017 | We Sleep To Remember And We Sleep To Forget |
2016 | Useful Gift |
2015 | Who’s The Boss? |
2014 | What Counts In The Future |
2013 | Improper Sequence? |
2012 | Two Gems |
2011 | A True Test |
And The Same For Blogs And Posts
Posted in Quotes, tagged Books, Quotes, Salman Rushdie on June 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. | |
–– Salman Rushdie | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | The End Of Asgard (For Now) |
I Learn The Hard Way Every Time | |
2017 | For Some |
2016 | Fragile And Explosive, Provocation And Privacy |
2015 | Bound Up |
2014 | Economic Engines |
2013 | Weren’t You Supposed To Be Reading? |
Absent Friends | |
Where I Stand | |
2012 | Hangin’ With His P’s |
Help Save | |
2011 | Six Facets Of Good Leadership |
A State With No Business
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Books, Films, Movies, Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Quotes, Reading, The First Amendment, Thurgood Marshall on May 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. | |
— Thurgood Marshall | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Reflections |
2017 | Opposites Attract |
2016 | Completely Unreasonable |
Starting To Be A Reacher | |
2015 | Avengers Assemble II |
But If I Had To Perish Twice… | |
2014 | Turning Pages |
2013 | We Are All Accountable |
2012 | American Sign Language |
2011 | Happy Disproof |
2010 | Book Review – Managing Your Government Career |
Two Books
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Childhood Reading, Favorite Book, John Green, Marcel Proust, Philosophy, Quotes on April 1, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. | |
–– John Green | |
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. | |
–– Marcel Proust | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Prime Example = #45 |
2017 | Building On |
2016 | Dueling Heroes |
2015 | Remarkable Creations |
2014 | Measured Faith |
2013 | April Fool, n. |
2012 | Faith, Ego And Patriotism |
As It Happens | |
2011 | What Counts |