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- 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… — John Donne
- I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I… — Vera-Ellen
- Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the… — 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… — 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… — Piper Perabo
- To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — 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… — Raj Patel
- Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation… — 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,… — Natalie Merchant