Quotes About Books

For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

My father has already given me advice: the only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

I don't think he can hurt. Wizards and witches go hand in hand, after all. Didn't you read Harry Potter?" Eden stared at him. "Well, yeah." "I didn't read the books," he continued. "But I did get to see the movies. A previous host was a fan. He even wore dress robes and pretended he'd been sorted into a house. Hufflepuff, if you can believe it. Who liked Hufflepuff best? I mean, seriously.

En lugar de biblioteca deberías tener clientela. Si por cada librote inútil de esos tuvieras un enfermo, estaríamos mejor de salud nosotros aquí en la casa. Yo, por mí, quisiera ver tu clínica llena, oír sonar el teléfono a todas horas, verte en consultas... En fin, que llegaras a ser algo...

Mira, eso del amor es una cosa de libros, algo que se ha inventado no más que para hablar y escribir de ello. Tonterías de poetas

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Amaba el libro, pero el libro espontáneamente elegido. Ella entendía que el vicio o la virtud de leer dependían del primer libro. Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha.

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

Alguém dissera um dia que se podia viver sem tudo, menos água e comida, mas que viver sem livros e sem música não seria o mesmo que viver.

it was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim to have, while the opposite trend was found for watching television.

People who view television more often than the average tend also to have worse jobs and worse relationships. In a large scale study in Germany, it was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claimed to have. While the opposite trend was found for watching television. The most flow was reported by individuals who read a lot and watched little TV. The least by those who read seldom and watched often.

Tuhat kirjaa luettuaan ihminen alkaa aavistaa masentavan totuuden. Kymmenentuhatta kirjaa tekee hänet surulliseksi

These days, most people know the Holy Grail from books like The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, or from Monty Python. What we've lost in these pop culture transformations of the Grail is what made it holy in the first place. That original meaning is what this book seeks to unfold.

I think books are like rain, wherever rain falls, things grow. So hopefully wherever our books land, the person who reads them will gain knowledge, and his or her mind will grow. This in turn, will help humanity grow. We will always be proud of our secret library and i am sure that good things will continue to flow from it"-[Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption In a Town Under Siege by Mike Thompson] 5

Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

She's sorting out our library, her book, my book, and now and again we exchange a touch for old times

O paraíso neste mundo se encontra no dorso dos alazães, nas páginas de alguns livros e entre os seios de uma mulher.

If anything, he wanted a very simple life filled with nature, books, and perhaps a few children. He knew that later in life, he also wanted to be let alone to read and to be quiet.

In literature, I've never been without consolation. Books have found me at every stage of my life, reminding me that if a character could change, so could I.

Noa loved to read. The best. He loved to read.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison. Am I normal? Am I doing the correct trendy cardio exercises? Am I reading the right books? Is gluten still lame? Is soap cool again, or is body wash still the way to go? It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you.