Laura Bush Quotes

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

I would read all day if I could.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

I absolutely love reading.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

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.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I like to go to the movies or read.