Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas...

Jonathan Nolan

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all thi...

Franz Kafka

An old man in the house is a burden, but an old woman is a treasure.

Hebrew

When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.

Free for All

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Girl in a Cage

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Stieg Larsson

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dr. Seuss

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

John Wooden

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Loretta Lynn

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Kim Edwards

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson McCullers

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about r...

Days of Magic, Nights of War

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be mad...

The Graveyard Book

You make me thirsty, Promethea, my river, you make me eternally thirsty, my water. As if I had spent my life in an old house of dried mud, so dry myself that I could not even thirst, until yesterday. And suddenly yesterday, the dusty floor of my old ...

The Book of Promethea

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve,...

Meg Rosoff

Dear Judy Blume, why didn’t you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this ...

Taking Back Forever

When I was a little boy, say 17 months old, I lived in the forest. I was raised by bears. We had a good time. We laughed a lot. At least I think we laughed a lot. I can’t really say, because I was too young to remember.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person i...

Laurie R. King

There were two books I remember changing my life as a introverted, bookish 14 year old. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. One was set in a fantastic world, populated by outlandish characters,tired prose, foul mons...

Christopher Odell Homsley

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

Foolish Games