Quotes Tagged "books"

I LEAVE poetry IN LIBRARY BOOKS.

But what did it mean to find me, a slave, dreaming about those books?

I always liked dearly to hear what he had to say about either pictures or books; because without pretending to be a connoisseur, he always spoke his thought, and that was sure to be fresh:

Reading a book is like taking a walk through an unknown country.

All thinking people are in constant need of more books.

Jedes vom Schicksal festgelegte aufeinander treffen ist wie ein Buch, es hat eine Einleitung und ein Schlusskapitel, einen Gruß und einen Abschied.

I didn't write just one book, I wrote twenty books with the same title and published the last one.

I wish I could take credit for my writing, but the credit goes to my mother. She taught me to love reading, and without a love of reading I could not write.

I am swimming with sharks and I am prepared to become one of them.

Danny spent most of his time at the museum or in his room with the door locked, lost in books he consumed like a flame eating air, trying to stay alight.

You can't have too much dog in a book.

You can't write personal notes on the margins of a Kindle, you can't erroneously spill coffee on its pages and reminisce about it years later, you can't get your favourite writer to sign your Kindle. A book isn't just words, it's a memory bank never in need of a charging port.

I want to be the parts of the book you underline.

Brush the dust off her covers and kiss her pages so well that she forgets all the time you've been ignoring her.

They cut the tree you talk to every day and the sad thing is you can't stop them from cutting many more.

I believe he hadn't read it. Because he doesn't read books. its one of the things that apparently endears him to his base.

In stories, you can find out all sorts of things. Did you know that in 1769 the English navigator Captain James Cook sighted Aotearoa (New Zealand)? He landed at Poverty Bay two days later.

En cambio, los libros... Sigo creyendo que los libros sí que pueden salvarte.

They belonged to that very small class of persons who still read, who have mind and leisure to find companionship in books.

If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you’re functionally illiterate.