Quotes About Books

Few objects awaken as much as the book the feeling of absolute property. Fallen in our hands, the books become our slaves.

Le savoir est d'abord charnel. Ce sont nos oreilles et nos yeux qui le captent, notre bouche qui le transmet. Certes, il nous vient de livres, mais les livres sortent de nous. Ça fait du bruit, une pensèe, et le gout de lire est un héritage du besoin de dire.

Isabelle [era] la piccola prosivendola che dai tempi immemorabili della loro infanzia considerava il libro l'indispensabile materasso dell'anima.

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.

L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu'il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu'il se sait seul. Cette lecture lui est une compagnie qui ne prend la place d'aucune autre, mais qu'aucune autre compagnie ne saurait remplacer.

Quel che abbiamo letto di più bello lo dobbiamo quasi sempre a una persona cara. Ed è a una persona cara che subito ne parleremo. Forse proprio perché la peculiarità del sentimento, come del desiderio di leggere, è il fatto di preferire. Amare vuol dire, in ultima analisi, far dono delle nostre preferenze a coloro che preferiamo. E queste preferenze condivise popolano l'invisibile cittadella della nostra libertà. Noi siamo abitati da libri e da amici.

Aimer c'est, finalement, faire don de nos préférences à ceux que nous préférons. Et ces partages peuplent l'invisible citadelle de notre liberté. Nous sommes habités de livres et d'amis.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.

It's rough being without a librarian for a whole month, isn't it?" Starr Lackawanna said. "Yes!" we all said.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

I am still, relentlessly, reading Agee, and Flannery, too. Two of the writers who fired me to write post–Marine Corps, when I needed it, were Mr. McGuane and Mr. Harrison, and their books are always nearby, well thumbed. And Kawabata and James Salter, both of whom floor me.

C'è sempre qualcos'altro da leggere. - Celestine Clochette -

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

pois uma grande quantidade de livros nunca é perigosa, enquanto um só livro sim, é perigoso; disse-lhes que não os rasgassem porque a leitura de uma grande quantidade de livros conduz à sabedoria, e a leitura de um único à ignorância armada de loucura e ódio.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.

BIBLIOHOLIC

Someone once said, "Those who don't read are no better off than those who can't read." How true.

then Tertullian is saying that several of the original New Testament books still existed in his day, well over a century after the time of their writing.

Even James speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory (James 2:1). The point of naming such a wide variety of books is to illustrate how widespread this teaching was.

One contributing factor is the plethora of books about Jesus from this perspective since the 1980s. Jesus studies is a growth industry today.

I'm dating again, but it's got me confused. So I've been reading up on the differences between men and women. I read The Rules, the Mars and Venus books, Dating for Dummies. And here's the real difference: Women buy the books.

No one would ever find time to read such a collection, but libraries like that are not intended to be read, only envied.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.