Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.

Polish

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Ray Bradbury

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

Constance Zimmer

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

I remember the good old days. You must remember the good old days, because they were the days with the long white beards.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I love to both give and receive very old books.

Augusten Burroughs

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The Vicar of Wakefield

Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility. 

This Book Title is Invisible

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approx...

Terry Pratchett

The old age old story of Yin & Yang...Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we s...

Fahrenheit 451

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Samuel Rogers

The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

C.S. Lewis

I’m so old school I’m like a one-room schoolhouse—with no bathroom. I always keep it classy.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He has wisdom beyond his years. He’s 87-years-old, and he’s at least as wise as an 88-year-old.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.

The Importance Of Living

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Nick Flynn

You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awaren...

Fahrenheit 451