Booklove Quotes & Sayings

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life. — Anna Quindlen

You might not be able to run a paintbrush over unpleasant memories, but you can certainly cover them with a black cloth and pretend they don't exist. — Amy Matayo

If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way you respond to me. You're poetry in motion. — Kitty Thomas

I think there's some part of everyone, that's turned into the memories of a place. Strong feelings leave an inmprint on the air that echo back to whorever's unlucky enought to walk through that place again. — Alexandra Bracken

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out! — Katherine Heigl

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

Please, Sir, make it hurt. — Ella Dominguez

We women adore failures. They lean on us. — Oscar Wilde

Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know. — Matthew Quick

Nice to see you, to see you nice — Bruce Forsyth

When somebody leaves this plane - or, if you like, goes into another room - those left behind sometimes try and stop loving - but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined. — Simon Van Booy

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? — Jonathan Miller

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems. — Unknown

Only last week I went out among the thorns and said
to the wild roses:
deny me not,
but suffer my devotion.
Then, all afternoon, I sat among them. — Mary Oliver

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician. — Grant-Lee Phillips

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us. — Barry Gibb

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar