Books Quotes
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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.
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So just remember that this is the first sign of trouble- if books are banned, that means that things are going wrong.
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Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
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Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
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There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.
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Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
