Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I haven’t seen my old friends in a while. Maybe next week I’ll go visit them in the nursing home.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Henry Austin Dobson

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

Sherman Alexie

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

The Hiding Place

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

Elizabeth Moon

These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality a...

The Book of Lost Things

But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries– The counselors who never change, the friends who never go, The old books, the dear books that understand and know!

The Old Road to Paradise

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

C.S. Lewis

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, O...

This Craft of Verse

Old books, yes! They are the true comforters; and principally because they are old and familiar. Many excellent new tales and poems and dramas are added yearly to the catalogues, and and some of these in time will stand beside the great companions un...

Books Alive

I love how babies look like old people. I saw a baby the other day that looked exactly like my grandpa, only taller.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

Carmela Dutra

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, b...

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Bernard Baruch

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

G. H. Hardy

Throw out old clothes and shoes, and train your brain to get rid of old thoughts and ideas.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Raina Telgemeier

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

Luke Bryan