Bookshelves Quote by George Plimpton Download Open image “I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.” — George Plimpton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bookshelves People Understood
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height,… — Jan Karon 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
“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table, framed book… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what… — Henry Petroski 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
I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
“A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we… — George Plimpton 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
