Quotes about booking

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“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”

“Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

“How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?”

“To my wonderful readers. Sorry about that apology for that last cliffhanger. I’ll try to avoid cliffhangers in this book. Well, except for maybe a few small ones… because I love you guys.”

“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.
‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.”

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

“Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?"
"You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them”

“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”

“Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd…”

“… I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We never shall.”

“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”

“it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone”

“I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.”

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

“On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

“There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.”

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

“O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,
Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play
With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!
And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”

“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”

“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.”

“…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.”

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”

“… that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”

“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!”

“So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.”

“I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.”

“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”

“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”

“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.”

“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”

“Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.”

“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.”

“The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.”

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort. Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them.”

“Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.”

“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”

“Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?”

“Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.”

“A NICE THOUGHT
One was a book thief.
The other stole the sky.”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

“There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside. If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.”

“And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it”

“Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.”

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away…”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“Please,” Alec said, pulling out his stele. “I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn’t.”

“I cannot live without books.”

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

“Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!”

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.”

“If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry.
Jessamine Lovelace.”

“Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.”

“This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.”

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”

“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”

“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.”

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

“I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?”

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“The atmosphere of the place soothed her automatically; the rich lantern lights, the sheer scent of paper and leather, and the fact that everywhere she looked, there were books, books, beautiful books.”

“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”

“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.”

“I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.”

“The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks… Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.”

“You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.”

“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”

“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

“I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.”

“Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Two."
Three."
Oh, all right, three. But that's it!”

“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”

“My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.”

“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”

“What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.”

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt…”

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”

“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”