“You could spend a lifetime reading in here.”

— Peter Greenaway

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

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British film director 1942

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Slightly Married

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“A lifetime here with you will seem to short.”

William Fitzsimmons (1978) American musician

Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Forsake All Others

“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”

Craig Claiborne (1920–2000) Journalist and book author

“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Context: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read—and that’s a lot of books these days. If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity—because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about.

Chapter 11, paragraph 59 http://www.uri.edu/library/inscriptions/almamater.html