Book Quote by Miljenko Jergovic Download Open image “Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.” — Miljenko Jergovic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Dear Dust Remember Stranger Strokes
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die!… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“Try to avoid your house catching fire, as this does no good at all. And while your house is still intact, it is a… — Joseph Connolly Copy Share Image
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
“I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ljubavi se katkad vraćaju kao riječi i osjetiš ih kao da su prave, pa onda prelete i više ne dođu; samo što za sobom… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Djed teško diše i stalno je nervozan. Baka kaže da ga neće ubiti ni srce, ni astma, ni bubrezi, nego će ga ubiti njegov… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Oni ne znaju kojim avionom stiže. Nije im mogla reći jer tko bi izdržao susret u aerodromskoj zgradi, te glasove koji se do u… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“...mrtve vraćaju ljude koji u bolnicama ne nađu zdravlje jer se zdravlje često zagubi u bijelim hodnicima i zelenim kotlovnicama, u mirisima kloroforma, etera… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Djeca ne smiju biti sama jer je samoća nešto odraslo; rastemo da bismo jednoga dana mogli ostati sasvim sami i da se zbog toga… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Djed je svakoga jutra, usred grohotno-gromoglasna astmatičarskoga kašlja ponavljao Lijepa smrt, a baka bi mu govorila: Šuti, Franjo, ja ću prije tebe. I tako… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Sve važno što čovjek o sebi može reći, svaka istina o njemu koja biva izrečena u tišini, kazuje se očima.” — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Da se ne bi rasplakao nad sobom i svojom strašnom sudbinom, Vukota je učinio ono što je u ovakvim situacijama uvijek dobro i ljekovito:… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“Tri godine trajao je period pretvaranja u kanadskoga drzavljanina. To je vrijeme po misljenju tamosnjih vlasti dovoljno da covjek zaboravi na sve razloge koji… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
“To je ona ljudska sklonost, ispunjena olovnim samosažaljenjem, da se svaka stvar, svaki vedar i svijetao životni trenutak, zagorča uvjerenjem kako ti netko čini… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
