Bookish Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. — Ray Bradbury
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… — John Donne
I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was… — Vera-Ellen
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we… — Sathya Sai Baba
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline… — C W Ceram
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. — Samuel Johnson
I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side. — Piper Perabo
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that… — Raj Patel
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in… — Germaine Greer
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! — Natalie Merchant
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although… — Christopher Bram
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a… — Henrietta Rose-Innes
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. — Will Self
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical… — Jack Kerouac
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma… — Junot Diaz
the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. — Ellen Hopkins
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard
An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who… — Sergei Lukyanenko

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40 authors contributed a total of 44 Bookish Quotes, led by these top contributors: