Bookcases Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns… — Anatole Broyard
A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the… — Ansen Dibell
My father always says, â€˜Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.â€™ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I… — Emilia Clarke
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I… — David Lindsay-Abaire
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase… — Samantha Bee
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were… — C.S. Lewis
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was… — A. E. Hotchner
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on… — Roald Dahl
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… — Anne Fadiman
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles… — Jennifer Donnelly
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the… — Haruki Murakami
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has… — Walter Mosley
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I… — Charles Baudelaire
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and… — Anton Chekhov
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. — Virginia Woolf
The young need discipline and a full bookcase. — Vivienne Westwood

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