Top 1200 Old Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?

The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.

Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I would have books in abandoned cars, in the seats, cubby holes on the L.A. River, just to have books wherever I could keep them, I just loved to have books. And that really helped me. I didn't realize it was going to be my destiny; I didn't know I was going to be a writer.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at proper books, which means books without pictures.

I don't get how people want to read books on computers because it must be really bad for your eyes, for starters. I love the smell of books and I just like the whole experience of it. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I like that whole experience - it's the same as I like putting on a record or a CD and waiting for it to arrive or buying it and waiting to listen to it in full.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not have friends, but books kept my occupied most of the time.

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.

You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?