Quotes about booking

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“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess”

“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”

“It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”

“But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.”

“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”

“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”

“The book's always better than the movie.”

“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else.

Wash the car, maybe.”

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

“We need books… because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”

“Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool.”

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”

“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”

“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”

“I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.”

“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”

“People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

“The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.”

“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”

“Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond…”

“Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?”

“Is this a kissing book?”

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.”

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”

“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.

“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

“They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”

“I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.”

“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”

“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”

“That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.”

“You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.”

“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”

“Clearly, I see it.
I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there.
A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.”

“I even love the smell of books.”

“And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air, Gone with the wind”

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”

“Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.”

“Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.

Some scars never heal.
Then again, some do.”

“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.”

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

“I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book”

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

“What a blessing it is to love books.”

“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

“I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.”

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

“The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.”

“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”

“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer.”

“Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.”

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”

“Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.”

“Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”

“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

“Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.”

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”

“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”

“Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."

~Ilona Andrews in the Acknowledgements section of Magic Bleeds”

“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”

“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

“Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.”

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee”

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!”

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

“A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.”

“I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!”

“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”

“Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away”

“How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.

The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.”