“If you only ever read one book in your life… I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.”
Simon Munnery (1967) British comedian
Attention Scum! (2001), How To Live (2005)
“Let me recommend this book – one of the most remarkable ever penned.”
Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, ch. 2.
Criticism of The Martyrdom of Man
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“If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend… keeping your f***ing mouth shut.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
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Cut It Out (2004)
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
UN speech, June 2013
Context: So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.
“Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Memory and Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress (1991) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c; this has sometimes been paraphrased "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." <br class="br">1990s
Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
