Quotes About Books

miré las estanterías de libros. Me da la impresión de que se puede saberlo todo de una persona observando los libros que tiene.

L`essentiel, c`est que ces mots aient été écrits. Le reste n`a pas d`importance. Nous ne devons pas laisser de preuves aux chiens. Il faut ranger nos livres et nous souvenirs en nous.

L`essentiel, c`est que ces mots aient été écrits. Le reste n`a pas d`importance. Nous ne devons pas laisser de preuves aux chiens. Il faut ranger nos livres et nos souvenirs en nous.

Aby Warburg est ainsi à l'origine d'un fonds bibliophilique inouï. Il a des théories sur le rangement des livres. Notamment celle du bon voisinage. Le livre que l'on cherche n'est pas forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.

Sur le chemin du fauteuil, et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Hector repensa à un dicton croate qui disait qu'on rencontrait souvent les femmes de sa vie devant des livres. A priori, il y avait là un livre.

Il y a des théories sur le rangement des livres. Notamment celle du bon voisinage. Le livre que l'on cherche n'est pas forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly. Early on I was fascinated by theoretical physics and determined to become a theoretical physicist. I had no real idea what that meant, but it seemed incredibly exciting to spend one's life attempting to find the secrets of the universe by using one's mind.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but an all-star second team as well. There were counts kept on how many Rhodes scholars there were in the Administration, how many books by members of the new Administration (even the Postmaster, J. Edward Day, had written a novel, albeit a bad one).

There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.

the Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.

That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.

One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions. He feels too sensibly, how much all the rest of mankind fall short of the notions which he has entertained. And, his affections being thus confined within a narrow circle, no wonder he carries them further than if they were more general and undistinguished.

Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

With any luck, that'll be the silver lining of this fucking election, that when writers start to feel oppressed again they'll start to write books worth reading instead of all that idiotic upper-middle-class self-absorbed liberal navel-gazing crap we got when Obama was president.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.

Athlete or not, I'm going to make sure you know how to read.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

Before long, public libraries had stopped lending books, gauze face masks had become regular attire, and people had stopped shaking hands.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.