Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just… — Gilbert Highet
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that… — Joe Queenan
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. — Carolyn Wells
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their… — Louis Nizer
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book… — Al Yankovic
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true… — Gabrielle Zevin
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own. — Alain de Botton
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it,… — Louise Mensch
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out… — Louise Mensch
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never… — Louise Mensch
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law… — Kathryn Stockett
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must… — Diane Setterfield
There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let… — LouAnne Johnson
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't… — Ajahn Chah
A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy:… — Thomas Chalmers
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in… — Jane Kenyon
I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good.… — Sue Townsend
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America… — Carlos Bulosan
Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes,… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
All books are merely delayed dust. — George Elliott Clarke
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books — Albert Pike
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the… — Chester Himes
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well.… — Sigrid Undset
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they… — Carrie Brownstein

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