Book Quote by Naomi Ragen Download Open image “Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..” — Naomi Ragen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Like Like Old Old friends Pages Thumbed Pages Wells Worn Worn Covers Writer
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness… — H.Y. Hanna Copy Share Image
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages – a special… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.” — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel,… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of replenishing the earth. God… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men. — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“The most terrible thing about terrorism, the thing that people fond of saying "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" didn't get, was… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“He who gives life, nourishes life. He listens, this I can tell you. Whatever happens, He's listening. He doesn't always answer right away. He… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
How do they manage to go on living?…By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again… — Naomi Ragen 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
