Quotes on “books”

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.