I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — George Payne Rainsford James Copy Share Image
“Old Books Smell Of: A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying… — Chemists of the University College London Copy Share Image
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.” — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A house on the park. He'd seen it a million times. And now was in it. It smelled of man sweat and… — george saunders Copy Share Image
“I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
My mom was a model and she would show me her old books, and it was so cool. She would tell me… — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“Far back in history, there is evidence that men who have attempted to solve the riddle of water have been bitterly attacked.… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Why should one live? All is vain! To live - that is to thresh straw; to live - that is to burn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He pulled out a thick black volume. "You've never read this, for example." The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To make a tarte of strawberyes," wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, "take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four eggs, and… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and… — David Laskin Copy Share Image
“There is also a keen pleasure (and after all, what else should the pursuit of science produce?) in meeting the riddle of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The only customers they'd get on a day like this were lunatics -- well, lunatics and hopeless romantics with a fetish for… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe… — Rachel Hall Copy Share Image
“what think you of that, Nick, since you allwaies have your Head stuck in old Books? And I said nothing, for who… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Age appears to be best in some things. Old wood best to burn. Old books best to read. Old rice best to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait… — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
