Books Quotes - Page 68

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

The world was hers for the reading.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Louisa May Alcott

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

We live for books.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

Books may well be the only true magic.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

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