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  • Trees are being saved because of the Kindle. -- Paul Hawken
  • I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer. -- Kellan Lutz
  • I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it. -- Joan Rivers
  • Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. -- J. K. Rowling
  • First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read. -- Nicholson Baker
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  • But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. -- Lisa See
  • I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices. -- Randall L. Stephenson
  • There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. -- Jeff Bezos
  • What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas. -- Chris Hughes
  • Kindle in thy heart the flame of love. -- Rumi
  • Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire! -- Daniel Clowes
  • Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. -- Stephen Fry
  • I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle. -- Evgeny Morozov
  • The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching! -- David Pogue
  • I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects. -- John Banville
  • I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can't lift it. -- Steve Martin
  • Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds. -- Jeff Bezos
  • Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most. -- Jen Lancaster
  • It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. -- Penelope Lively
  • This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. -- Stephen Fry
  • I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered. -- Sloane Crosley
  • ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out. -- Cory Doctorow
  • I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. -- Andrew Wylie
  • I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go. -- Warren Ellis
  • Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon. -- Jonathan Zittrain
  • I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad. -- Jonathan Tropper
  • What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that. -- Steven Johnson
  • The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects. -- David Pogue
  • I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition. -- R.K. Ryals
  • You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands. -- Jimmy Carter
  • I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished. -- James Boswell
  • Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth. -- Emma Lazarus
  • As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing. -- Chris Riddell
  • Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice. -- Omar Khayyam
  • I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub. -- Jen Lancaster
  • And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. -- Omar Khayyam
  • When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision. -- Billy Collins
  • Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of. -- Nicholson Baker
  • I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips. -- Jen Lancaster
  • I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books. -- Ross Kemp
  • I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. -- Nicholson Baker
  • I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them. -- Lisa Unger
  • If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. -- Jen Lancaster
  • Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity. -- Sara Shepard
  • Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity. -- Sara Shepard
  • One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock. -- Marco Arment
  • You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. -- Saint Augustine
  • You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. -- Saint Augustine
  • I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books. -- Chad Hurley
  • I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act. -- Chuck Hogan
  • I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don't want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac. -- Stephen King
  • With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic about it. -- Colleen Hoover
  • As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers. -- Brad Stone
  • Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves. -- Lynda Resnick
  • Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.' -- Jennifer Lee
  • The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to say, "Can I see the index to your Kindle?" It's so depressing and so unsexy. Sure, it's there, but nobody is going to get excited by that. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine. -- Derek Blasberg
  • Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights. -- Dada Vaswani
  • If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -- Lucy Larcom
  • Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. -- Igor Stravinsky
  • To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. -- Tryon Edwards
  • As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. -- William Shakespeare
  • Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. -- Marya Mannes
  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. -- Carl Jung
  • Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. -- Francis Bacon
  • The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. -- Voltaire
  • I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad. -- Caroline Leavitt
  • Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan. -- Richard Bach
  • I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal. -- Tom Peters
  • I found the iPad to be too large and heavy to use comfortably in casual situations (like reading in bed, for example), and too limited to use as a replacement for my laptop. By comparison, the Nexus 7 is just the right size for use anywhere - it's very similar in size to my daughter's Kindle Fire, but lighter. -- John Battelle
  • But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. -- Lisa See
  • Truths kindle light for truths. -- Lucretius
  • Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks. -- Friedrich Engels
  • Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. -- John Dryden
  • Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out. -- George Herbert
  • I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle -- John Geddes
  • A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. -- Isaac Asimov
  • All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. -- Antonio Porchia
  • Every flower is a love of a dancing sun, ready to kindle your heart. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument. -- Fred Allen
  • It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. -- William Penn
  • The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze. -- Roger Smith
  • Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish. -- Charles Simmons
  • In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it. -- David Hume
  • Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world. -- Peter Kreeft
  • The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. -- Joseph Addison
  • Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love. -- Josemaria Escriva
  • Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. -- Nicholas Roerich
  • The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds. -- Frederick William Robertson
  • Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love. -- Jude Bijou
  • An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow... -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish. -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
  • How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. -- John Muir
  • Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it. -- David Attenborough
  • Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage. -- John Dryden
  • Gratitude...here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more... -- Muse
  • O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. -- Julius Sumner Miller
  • History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. -- Winston Churchill
  • My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words. -- Allison Mackie
  • It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all. -- Voltaire
  • Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:รข??Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!? Amen. -- Pope Francis
  • In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively. -- John Welwood
  • Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds. -- Mary Augusta Ward
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