Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

John Muir

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

John Ruskin

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.

John Steinbeck

I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

John Waters

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

John Waters

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

John Waters

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Jonathan Safran Foer

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido.

José de Almada Negreiros

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

José Saramago

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