Quotey Book Quotes

[Katie-Ellen]

Do add more.

Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

- Barbara Tuchman (1912-89)

 

[Marc Joan]

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
Ecclesiastes 12:12

 

[Jimithyh]

"Books: they're bookish, them"
some bloke down t' pub

 

[Carol Rose]

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
–Author Unknown

 

[Carol Rose]

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
–Haruki Murakami

 

[Carol Rose]

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
–Salman Rushdie

 

[Carol Rose]

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
–Oscar Wilde

 

[Carol Rose]

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
–Oscar Wilde

 

[Carol Rose]

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
–W. Somerset Maugham

 

[Carol Rose]

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
–Abraham Lincoln

 

[Katie-Ellen]

"Books: they're bookish, them"
some bloke down t' pub

Someone is mischeeeeeevous today

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
Ecclesiastes 12:12

Sometimes one just wants to loll and think NOWT.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
–Haruki Murakami

Not necessarily, Haruki. People often take different things from the same book.

 

[Jimithyh]

Bold statements BOLDLY put.

 

[Carol Rose]

Bold statements BOLDLY put.

Sorry. It's just the way they pasted from where I found them.

 

[Jimithyh]

I was teasing

 

[Paul Whybrow]

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree, with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny, dark squiggles. But one glance at it, and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan

 

[KG Christopher]

I hope Carl Sagan's head has been preserved, just in case future generations may bring him back to life.

 

[James Marinero]

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree, with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny, dark squiggles. But one glance at it, and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan

Maybe we need a new word 'sagancity' ?

 

[Jason Byrne]

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
–Oscar Wilde

I like this one in particular!