Quotes About Books

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too.

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books! he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

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The energy tasted like books, and I imagined we were still in the semipublic areas.

No one cares about books, that's why you can write anything you want in them.

A nadie le importan los libros, por eso puedes escribir lo que te dé la gana en ellos. A la gente le importan las normas.

But to me, writing books is a way to earn a living in my pajamas.

Det var en glad Dag før ham, han hadde ikke rikere Glæder end naar han kunde gjøre godt på denne Maate og hævde Lærdommens og Bokens Overlegenhet, det var hans Levebrød og hans Lidenskap. En Lidenskap skal Mennesket ha, somme trodser Ild og Vand for at faa bøie Verber.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here i am in the forest, quite content

I lived in the royal library, among all the books. You resided in a... library? There were suites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left.

But there is another realm where we can always find something true, the fireside of a friend, where we shed our little conceits and find warmth and understanding, where small selfishnesses are impossible and where wine and books and talk give a different meaning to existence. There we have made something that no falseness can touch. We are at home.

We live in an age of progress, announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends? Some

The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special relationship with the fans.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.