Books Quotes

See, some guys prefer assesSome prefer titsAnd I’m not saying that I don’t like those bitsBut what’s more importantWhat supersedesIs a girl a with passion, wit and dreamsSo I want a girl who reads.

~ Mark Grist

No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

~ Anastasiya Kotelnikova

Stirred with passion, laced with fun, spiked with laughter & served with a smile. On the road. No sugar, no mil. Horn OK Please. Buy my books or maythe wrath of a thousand locusts infest your underpants *Smack!!* :-)

~ Kartik Iyengar

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

~ Henry David Thoreau

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

~ Malala Yousafzai

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....

~ Martin Edwards

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

~ Vishwas Mudagal

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I was so utterly content that I was slightly wistful. It was the feeling I got when I was about to finish a really great book. I was nostalgic for this moment even as I was still in it.

~ Noelle Hancock

To all the readers,whom despitethe attraction of tv,of internet,of family troubles,of video games,of sport,of night clubs,have found some hoursso we can all dream together.

~ Bernard Werber

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

~ Dave Eggers

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

~ Franz Kafka

I'd stop the world from spinning for you.That silly line oddly touched me. I love you.Liked that one, did you.

~ Sylvia Day

Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek

~ Azuka Onwuka

What’s going on?� Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.� She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. “I’m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.� Ingrid busted out with a laugh. “I wouldn’t call her that,� she said. “That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?� She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. “What did the brat do this time?� She set her glass down.

~ Taylor Keys

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.

~ Salman Rushdie

Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: '______, with love from Momma.

~ Vincent Starrett

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

~ Ray Bradbury

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

~ Alfred Whitney Griswold

The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house.

~ Sui Ishida

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

~ Naomi Wood

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

~ Django Wexler

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

~ Kim Lehman

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

~ Leo Tolstoy

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

~ Erri De Luca

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

~ Nanette L. Avery

Sometimes when Rose was reading, she would catch a whiff of the musty smell of her book. She put her nose down in the fold and inhaled deeply so that wonderful smell, the smell of adventure in faraway lands, would fill her up. She rubbed her hand across the pages to feel the velvety surface of the paper. When she closed her eyes, her fingertips could even feel the words that were printed there, each letter raised just a little, almost like the special language that her blind aunt Mary could read.To Rose, a book was as real and alive as if it breathed and walked and spoke.

~ Roger Lea Macbride

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.

~ Erri De Luca

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

~ David Nicholls

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.

~ Karen Glass

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke

~ Jen Campbell

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

~ Susanna Kearsley

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

~ Adriano Bulla

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

~ Cornelia Funke

You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he treasures.

~ Jamie Craig

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

~ Charles Frazier

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

~ William H. Gass

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

~ Brandon Sanderson