Quotes About Bookish

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

You bookish little pervert.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

I was this weird little bookish giant.

Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

unmarried women make good academics because they've been neutered by too much knowledge and bookish pleasure. The world hands them a tiny domain it never cared about to begin with.

I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing.

Shy and bookish, she tended, like Rockefeller, to arrive at brilliant solutions by slow persistence.

no doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because neither do they contend about matters of fact nor can they determine their controversies by any certain witnesses or judges.

Paddy explained his increasingly wild behaviour as 'A bookish attempt to coerce life into a closer resemblance to literature'

I think I'm engaged To thirty-six women, my harem: Platonic, bookish, and enraged.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

I am a bit of a granny, I feel older than my years. I like to read rather than go to parties but at the same time my band and I have a lot of fun on tour and can be big kids.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.