Booklover Quotes & Sayings

Books fall open, you fall in. — David McCord

Are you hungry?" Grandma asked me. "Do you need breakfast?" "I'm famished! — Janet Evanovich

Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds. — Munia Khan

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Darwin let his nervous face relax into a smile. No, Your Majesty. I have no aspirations to your throne, but I make no promises regarding your library. — Amber Kell

One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up. — Nicolas Cage

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. — Gwen Cooper

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be. — Theodore Roosevelt

I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter. — Freddy Adu

They say that God doesn't give you more than you can handle.
Tell that to her. — Anna Kay Akana

Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls. — Kahlil Gibran

Josh: So, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?
Toby: God bless America. — Aaron Sorkin

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish. — Bram Stoker

Pretty birds and cute dogs are always necessary. I love them. But I'd never treat a dog like a human. — Yun Kouga

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint. — Bill Nighy

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,
the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I've fallen in love
On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was it wrong?
On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care.
the head does its best but the heart is the boss-
I admit it before I am halfway across — Wendy Cope

Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that. — Debora Geary

Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published. — Ken Kalfus

Your words seduced me,captured and imprisoned me in a world of wonders.
Enthralled, I lie at your feet,slayed and yearning for more of your magic. — D.Alma

On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books. — Theodore Roosevelt

I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages. — Cynthia Voigt