Quotes About Books

U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr (ret.) was once again incredibly helpful with details for this book. He also continues to be one hell of a thriller author. If you haven't checked out his books yet, do it. You'll love his writing. Thank you, Jack.

I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. These companions, and he laid his hand on some of the books, have been good friends to me and for some years past, ever since I had the good idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure.

Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.

The idea of forty precious volumes being taken into a country in a state of war where they might get burnt, blown up, drowned or dusty was almost too horrible to contemplate. Mr Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might – horror of horrors! – read them and try the spells! Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know.

Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge," declared Mr Norrell primly. "Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines.

There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies.

He wished he had never come to London. He wished he had never undertaken to revive English magic. He wished he had stayed at Hurtfew Abbey, reading and doing magic for his own pleasure. None of it, he thought, was worth the loss of forty books.

Felicity grabbed onto a broken roof beam for support. It was strange, standing in the middle of where the drawing room used to be, and seeing her broken bedchamber furniture occupying the same space. She wanted to cry every time she looked at the rubble, but weeping wouldn't help her dig out her jewelry box or the books piled in the wreck of the library.

I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks, and we never again experience the little rush of opening a new book and cracking the spine and smelling the print and diving deep into the thoughts of the writer.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

This was, of course, the tenth or hundredth beauty of loving someone new: you were introduced to books you had not read before

There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you.

to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence.

Now I know how people can live without books, without college. (...)and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna

surrounded by stacks of dusty, incomprehensible books with huge formulas inset artistically on the page like poems.

i have so many books i am perishing to read in my bookcase. hours-and-hours-and-hours- and hours.

Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of our lives - which I hope we do anyway. And have a house apart, by the side of no road, with country about & a study & walls of bookcases.

Czytanie ksi??ek to najpi?kniejsza zabawa, jak? sobie ludzko?? wymy?li?a.

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Books,' Morgenes said grandly, leaning back on his precarious stool, '--books are magic. That is the simple answer. And books are traps as well.' 'Magic? Traps?' 'Books are a form of magic--' the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, '--because they span time and distance more surely by any spell or charm.

Vi?u sav? zi?? nomierin?ja atrašan?s šaj?, lielaj?, drošaj?, skaistaj? ?k?, kura bija pilna ar to, kas vi?am patika, - ar gr?mat?m. Vi?u iesk?va zin?šanas, gudr?ba, saj?sma, nosl?pumi, kas pieder?ja vi?am par niec?gu cenu- prasmi las?t v?rdus.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.