Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some chapter In some book?

Audition

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Autobio Cecil B DeMille

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

All These Things I've Done

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

After the Gazebo

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

All the Pretty Horses

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Anne of the Island

Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.

Ab morgen ein Leben lang

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Aspects of the Novel

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Aspects of the Novel

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

Anne of Windy Poplars

The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

Aforismi. Volume primo.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I only want power so I can get books.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Horseradish

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

Holy Bible: King James Version

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Irving's Sketch Book

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

Imperial Bedrooms

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

I Love Everybody

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me