Mr Bookman Quotes & Sayings

I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects. — Larry McMurtry

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. — Larry McMurtry

I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have. I'm trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition and do different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. — Katee Sackhoff

It is always more pleasant to meet with one who is a bookman than with one who is not. — W. Robertson Nicoll

Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their song, and only the moorhen's plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day breathes out her last.
From the dim woods on either bank, Night's ghostly army, the grey shadows, creep out with noiseless tread to chase away the lingering rear- guard of the light, and pass, with noiseless, unseen feet, above the waving river-grass, and through the sighing rushes; and Night, upon her sombre throne, folds her black wings above the darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars, reigns in stillness. — Jerome K. Jerome

This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the future, creating an interlacing pattern, a grand design, a repeating motif. Don't dismiss myth, boy. And never, ever, dismiss the Bookman — Lavie Tidhar

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe ... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe. — Michael Jai White

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness. — Hosea Ballou

Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep.
But he was really good at giving head. — Augusten Burroughs

At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent. — Christian Wiman

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say. — Mark Twain

I liked his attention. But I also felt like there was something sick and wrong about it. Like it might make me sick later. I thought of my grandmother, my father's mother. How when I used to visit her in Georgia she would always let me eat all the cookies and frozen egg rolls I wanted. "Go ahead, sweetheart, there's more," she would say. And it seemed okay because she was a grown-up, and I wanted all the Chips Ahoy! cookies in the bag. But I always ended up feeling extremely sick afterward. I looked at book, his eyes swollen with emotion. — Augusten Burroughs

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again. — Miranda Lambert

Up. "Okay, Agent Bookman." "It's Books," he says. "Everyone calls me Books. — James Patterson

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed. — Prince

A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp. — Laurie Kahn

And what I further don't understand is how little you appreciate the nature of your departure. Think of all the poor souls who go in violent accidents. These are the nonprecognition victim. We are not permitted to forewarn them. You, Mr. Bookman, fall into the category of natural causes. — Rod Serling

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost. — Albert Ayler

Sit. You've just been soundly kissed. No doubt you're short of breath. — A.G. Howard

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform. — George Jean Nathan