Quotes About Books

25 Mart 1935 adl? mektuptan Etraf?n seni s?kt??? zaman kitap oku… Ben ?imdiye kadar her ?eyden çok kitaplar?m? severdim. Bundan sonra her ?eyden çok seni sevece?im ve kitaplar? beraber sevece?iz.

Odamda beni kitaplar?m bekler. Bu yegane tesellidir.

Ben ?imdiye kadar her ?eyden çok kitaplar?m? severdim. Bundan sonra her ?eyden çok seni sevece?im ve kitaplar? beraber sevece?iz.

Ben ?imdiye kadar her ?eyden çok kitaplar?m? severdim. Bundan sonra her ?eyden çok seni sevece?im. Kitaplar? beraber sevece?iz.

Ben bu kad?n? yedi ya??mdan beri okudu?um kitaplardan, be? ya??mdan beri kurdu?um hayal dünyalar?ndan tan?yordum.

O soluk insan yüzüne kitaplar dolduracak kadar çok manalar vermi?, onda, hakikatte asla mevcut olmayan vas?flar bulmu?tum.

BOOKS… The Loom of Language

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

Kitaps?z bir ev üzücü olmal?. Daha üzücüsü ise; okuyan? olmayan kitaplarla dolu bir evdir.

Books, like buildings, like works of art, like songs and sometimes even like the languages of prayers, often tell stories about the complexities of tolerance and cultural identity, complexities that ideological purists deny, both as an immediate reality and as a future possibility.

Don't die bitterly, regretful of all the things you haven't yet learned, all the books you haven't yet read. Die serenely and content, with a heart full of gratitude.

Precz z ksi??kami! Ju? nie dawaj siÄ™ im pociÄ…gn??! Nie wolno! (...) ?aknienie zaÅ› ksi??ek precz od siebie rzu?, byÅ› nie umieraÅ' wÅ›ród narzekaÅ", lecz spokojnie.

back in 1999 when lists were being compiled of the most important books of the twentieth century, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience appeared at number two on the list of the one hundred most important nonfiction

Ein Zimmer ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

I have taken so kindly to idleness that I can't tear myself away from it. So either I amuse myself with books, of which I have a good stock at Antium, or I count the waves - the weather is unsuitable for mackerel fishing... And my sole form of political activity is to hate the rascals, and even that I do without anger.

Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit. (If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.)

Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima

If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.