Bookshelves Quote by Douglas Adams Download Open image “Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.” — Douglas Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bookshelves People Way
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic and improving. But in my… — Vernon Sproxton Copy Share Image
Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered." — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have a nice bookshelf in my office, but not my house. I'm crass, but not that crass. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like, "Hey, how's… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter… — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run his knuckles… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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