The covers of this book are too far apart. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —André Maurois More about this quote Tags: love books chosenness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can cover a great deal of country in books. —Andrew Lang More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. —Arnold Lobel More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. —Bell Hooks More about this quote Tags: learning books transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. —Charles De Secondat More about this quote Tags: reading peace books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. —Charles W. Eliot More about this quote Tags: friends wisdom books teachers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A room without books is like a body without a soul. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge soul books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. —Dame Rose Macaulay More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. —Dave Kellett More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email