Addict Quote by Cornelia Funke Download Open image “And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.” — Cornelia Funke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addict Book Books Father Library Parenting
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“For a moment Dustfinger felt as if he had never been away- as if he had simply had a bad dream, and the memory… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right? — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“And he will have a great aunt called Elinor who tells him there's a world not like this one. A world with neither fairies… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he could really protect her from Capricorn and Basta and all the others. But he couldn't. Would Mo be able to protect her? Of course not. He mustn't come, she thought. Please. Perhaps he won't be able… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share
When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars…… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share
So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm a complete addict of The 'X Factor,' so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there's a downside to celebrity: your… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the legendary Phoenix… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
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