Adjectives Quote by Rachel Cohn

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

— Augustine Birrell

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

— Robert Sapolsky

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

— Jack White

“What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic…

— Miles Harvey

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

— Edward Abbey

I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

— Norman Reedus

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of…

— Oswald Chambers

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

— Lauren Grodstein

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that…

— Michael Dirda

“CUSTOMER: I’m looking for a biography to read that’s really interesting. Could you recommend one? BOOKSELLER: Sure. What books have you read and liked?…

— Jen Campbell

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens