Quotes About Books

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

And they want to know what we talked about? "de litteris et de armis, praestantibusque ingeniis", Both of ancient times and our own; books, arms, And of men of unusual genius.

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has grown incapable even of appraising the worth of other modes of expression

One of her fondest memories was of John laughing under an apricot moon in Juliet and Laurence's gazebo; another was of Eudora sitting beside Hilly, a thick book of words and pictures held between them. And of course there had been the countless afternoons of tea and arrowroot cookies with her girls, these three young women now gathered together once more. Such was Nell's wealth. She recalled a line from Emily Dickinson: "My friends are my 'estate.

Tenía frío y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua: pedía libros, es decir, horizontes, es decir, escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón. Porque la agonía física, biológica, natural, de un cuerpo por hambre, sed o frío, dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida

Tenía frio y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua; pedía libros, es decir horizontes, es decir escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón.Porque la agonía física, biológica , natural del cuerpo por hambre sed o frío dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida

Why don't the entertainment industry and religious institutions support more songs, books, movies praising friendship? Because friendship, unlike marriage, offers no capital to church, state, and corporation.

Os livros ou, dizia o pai com sulcos de muito matutar na testa, os cabrões dos livros. O rapaz tinha contraído a febre de ler.

Mi amor enfermizo adoraba los libros no sólo por lo que decían sino por la materia de que eran, por el objeto en sí. Era un amor absoluto por los dos costados de la carne y el espíritu, como quien dice la total perdición.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: "But I've read all this before…" You knew the opening, you were already bored by the middle, and, especially, you knew the end….

What type of influence do books and especially horror films have on a spiritual life? A negative one.

Parar de leer novelas exige mucha fuerza. Hay que tener ganas de vivir, de correr, de crecer. (...) Me interesé antes por los libros que por la vida. Desde entonces, no he cesado de utilizar la lectura como un medio para hacer desaparecer el tiempo, y la escritura como un medio para retenerlo.

Tuturor criticilor pe care i-am dezam?git, a? vrea s? le spun, o dat? pentru totdeauna, c? sunt de acord cu ei. ?i mie mi-ar pl?cea s? scriu c?r?i mai bune.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Je suis content que tu aies trouvé ton livre, Steve. Tout le monde y arrive, un jour ou l'autre. Il faut parfois en lire dix, cent ou mille, mais on finit toujours par le dénicher. Enfin, presque toujours. Certains abandonnent avant de l'avoir trouvé, malheureusement...

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.