Quotes About Books

sofa. She looked around, her eyes taking in a wall of French doors that was visible on the ocean side. The room was huge, with ceilings that soared at least twenty feet high. An interior second-story balcony ran across one side of the room. Another wall held a collection of finely bound books. Comfortable furnishings were placed throughout.

My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.

In other words, bright people with too much time on their hands, overly influenced by notions they found in old Earth books.

In the United States, the negative legacy of humanism and the reliance on books, recitation, and role learning have been difficult to overcome.

The library, and step on it!

The thing that I think a lot of us forget is that part of the fault is the books . . . you get this sort of cycle that as they become less important commercially they begin protecting their egos by talking more and more to each other and establishing themselves as this kind of tight cloistered world that doesn't really have anything to do with regular readers.

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

In 2 Macc. 2:14-15 it is stated that, after the devastating war waged against the Jews by Antiochus IV (called Epiphanes) of Syria, Judas Maccabaeus, who led a Jewish revolt against the Syrians, collected together all the books scattered in the war. This activity, about 164 B.C., probably had a decisive role in the canonization of the Hebrew Bible, including an official listing of its canonical books.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

If the truth were known, he was half starved, and yet there was still no end of books he ought to read before he died.

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow.

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast; Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

I have no idea who dreamed up the idiotic notion that summer vacations require light reading. Just the opposite, since the light books get read—if any reading's done at all—before bedtime, after the office work and house work, when we lack the concentration required for heavier fare.

Leggere libri è il gioco più bello che l'umanità abbia inventato.

Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.