Quotes About Books

Seu Tomás da bolandeira falava bem, estragava os olhos em cima de jornais e livros, mas não sabia mandar: pedia. Esquisitice um homem remediado ser cortês. Até o povo censurava aquelas maneiras. Mas todos obedeciam a ele. Ah! Quem disse que não obedeciam?

In childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water they influence the future. I suppose that is why books excited us so much. What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?

demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.

maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

With exceptions so rare that it is hard to remember one, textbooks are to books as powdered food supplements are to a good, balanced meal.

We have had a number of books casting the acid of angry rejection over the spirit of our age. They are not in error; it is only that in many cases they do not get us anywhere.

If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

Goodreads.com is where introverts unite.

Who says Television isn't educational, as soon as the T.V. comes on I read a book.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Vorrei avere nella mia casa: una donna ragionevole, un gatto che passi tra i libri, degli amici in ogni stagione senza i quali non posso vivere.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Când vine vorba de c?r?i ?i prieteni, întotdeauna e de preferat s? ai pu?ini dar buni.

Books tell us stories, they allow us to vicariously live out snippets of other lives, but they cannot take you in their arms and comfort you when you're scared.

Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion.

Otkako znam za sebe, uvek sam ose?ao da sam sam, nekako otu?en od sveta, od larme i mediokriteta koji se šire poput zarazne bolesti. U jednom trenutku, pomislio sam da bi knjige mogle da me izbave od tog ose?aja napuštenosti i apatije, ali ne treba previše o?ekivati o knjiga. One vam pri?aju pri?e, omogu?avaju vam da proživite, posredno, deli?e stvarnosti, ali nikada vas ne?e uzeti u naru?je da vas uteše.

Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about--Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.

The only piece of home Ofelia had been able to take with her were some of her books. She closed her fingers firmly around the one on her lap, caressing the cover. When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.