Quotes About Books

You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

Never trust people who've only got one fucking book.

Books have always meant a great deal to me. When I was young, people used to have all kinds of advice as to how the working class could free themselves from factory life and all of that frustration, but for me the true secret tunnel, the hidden escape route, was in the library, reading books.

The Bible is actually a library of books—some long, some short—written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

Walk into any bookstore and you'll find hundreds of books telling you how to live. Don't be misled, and don't be deceived. Instead, build your life on the truth God has given us in His Word.

There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up.

The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.

Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.

Kindle - who needs it, jag har 3000, 35 000 böcker i huvudet eller i flyttkartongerna på vinden.

For thirty-five years now I've been compacting old paper and books, living as I do in a land that has known how to read and write for fifteen generations; living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.

C?rÅ£ile m-au înv??at pl?cerea ÅŸi bucuria distrugerii.

It is by and from books that I've learned that the heavens are not humane, neither the heavens nor any man with a head on his shoulders—it's not that men don't wish to be humane, it just goes against common sense.

Lecz uÅ›miecham siÄ™, bo w teczce niosÄ™ ksi??ki, po których siÄ™ spodziewam, ?e wieczorem dowiem siÄ™ z nich o samym sobie czegoÅ›, czego jeszcze nie wiem.

Ceea ce citesc nu e nici pentru distracÅ£ie,nici pentru ca timpul s? treac? mai repede ÅŸi nici,în cele din urm?,pentru a adormi mai curând.Eu beau pentru ca,citind s? nu pot adormi niciodat?,s? m? cutremur.

y por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

When my eye lands on a real book and looks past the printed word, what it sees is disembodied thoughts flying through air, gliding on air, living off air, returning to air.

Attraverso i libri ho appreso che i cieli non sono affatto umani e che un uomo che sa pensare, anche lui non è umano, non che non lo voglia, ma ciò contrasta col giusto modo di pensare.

los verdaderos pensamientos provienen del exterior, (...) por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

When my eye lands on a real book and looks past the printed word, what it sees is disembodied thoughts flying through air, gliding on air, living off air, returning to air, because in the end everything is air, just as the host is and is not the blood of Christ.

smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Mi patria es mi hijo y mi biblioteca.