John Hughes (filmmaker) - Books

Famous quotes containing the word books:

“They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.’”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)