Quotes About Books

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I spoke English perfectly. No one could correct my Spanish. And I think that I retreated to books as a way, you know, to be, like, masterful in a language that was really difficult for me for many years.

At Somerset I played with Marcus Trescothick who has spoken very openly about his battle with depression and anxiety. I had a few conversations with him about his problems but I also read his book which provided me with a great insight into what he went though.

My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

Books are the single most efficient technology there is in terms of nimbleness and bang for the buck. You can present a whole universe in a book. It's produced simply by sitting in front of a typewriter or a computer and tapping on keys. There's no real limit to what you can conjure up in the reader's imagination by doing that. The book is irreplaceable.

People are my books," Ty said. "But I did bring a couple, in case the people all go to sleep.

The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.

Randy does a sorting procedure on the diving books now: he ignores anything that has color photographs, or that appears to have been published within the last twenty years, or that has any quotes on the back cover containing the words stunning, superb, user-friendly, or, worst of all, easy-to-understand.

She slammed the book closed, ran to her bed, gathered her stuffed animals up in her arms, started chewing on her blanket, and cried for a while, considering the question of trolls.