Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

The old me is younger than the new me, the me now.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

No old road leads to new destinations! Change begins when one realizes that it is unwise to pour a new wine into an old wine skin. If you change your mind, you have to change your actions too!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made u...

P. Harding

A good book is like a good friend. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. When you first get to know it, it will give you excitement and adventure, and years later it will provide you with comfort and familiarity. And best of all, you can s...

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.

Chinese

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Harrison Ford

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Stephen King

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

The Book Thief

I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter o...

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My favorite smells are freshly baked bread, the pages of an old book, and they way my boss’ ass smells when he’s shouting at me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Ray Bradbury

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Rachel Field

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book ha...

Ron Rash

A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.

Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South

When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I’ll probably call my grandma up, because as old as I’ll feel, she’ll be feeling older. Twelve years older.


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

The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Gree...

Conan Stevens

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Sue Monk Kidd

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

Alejandro Jodorowsky