Book Quote by Dorothy Parker

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

— Catherine Tresa

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

They're book addicts.

— Anonymous

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

— Annie Dillard

There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the…

— William Hazlitt

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

— Alexandra Petri

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are…

— Peter Medawar

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full…

— W. H. Auden

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high…

— Anonymous

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

— Benoit Mandelbrot