Book Collectors Book Collector Quotes & Sayings

No, no, I don't want that."
"I didn't ask. — Cherise Sinclair

[T]he nags ... the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang ... the nags are a bunch of whores to liberalism. — Rush Limbaugh

Emotions are at the nexus of thought and action, of self and other, of person and environment, of biology and culture. Emotion is a term that evokes many connotations, from the way we "feel" to the ways our lives are integrated across time. — Diana Fosha

Familiar mahogany-stained pews with red velvet cushions sucked the light from the interior. — Sally Kilpatrick

Love gives itself; it is not bought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no room in research for morals. Morals cloud judgement. Morals taint conclusions. Morals define unwanted prejudices. They are not welcome in any lab of mine. — Edward Martin III

I am obsessed with books.
I am a book collector. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ... — Vincent Starrett

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it! — Rush Limbaugh

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. — Gerald R. Ford

Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart. — Robin Hobb

I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the "least vicious" of hobbies (we are quite savage). We collectors are puzzled and often piqued unpleasantly by the common, absurd notion whereby we are only a pack of myopic, semi-crazed old pedants fretting over a book's colophon, dull dogs full of humorless zeal and no conversation, who suck our fingers free of pounce. — Paul Theroux