Book-related quotes wanted

Hiya all

It's half-way through the week so we're all a bit fed up of work and waiting for the weekend right? Well, here's something to pass those long hours at work.

Get your thinking caps on because I want some inspired ideas that I can pass off as my own at work.

We're doing a book display (unusual in a library, granted) but we want to use quotes about reading or books, just to dot around the books and on the walls etc.

Obviously, the first one I came up with was
"There's more to life than books you know, but not much more"

We have also got one from Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book, just good and bad writers"

We're looking for quotes from songs, books, films (anywhere, really) that are related to books.

Thanks mateys.
x

> We're doing a book display (unusual in a library, granted) but we want to
> use quotes about reading or books, just to dot around the books and on the
> walls etc.

I found these on the internet, Bluenose, (at http://www.deblogan.com/quo2.html ) so I can't vouch for their accuracy. If you want to include Morrissey quotations - what about this one: "I was born in Manchester's Central Library. In the Crime section."

Outside of a dog a book is man's best. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

Groucho Marx

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

H. G. Wells

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Malcolm X

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

S. I. Hayakawa

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry...

Emily Dickinson

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left
I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction is like a spider's web,
attached ever so lightly perhaps,
but still attached to life at all four corners.

Virginia Woolf

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Rita Mae Brown

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Doing research on the Web is like using a library
assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Roger Ebert

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Bern Williams

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Daniel J. Boorstein

Quotations of Sydney Smith. (1771–1845). I suppose these are of their own time...

"I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so."

"Live always in the best company when you read."

"We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal."

"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"(Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States, 1820.)

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

> Hiya all

> It's half-way through the week so we're all a bit fed up of work and
> waiting for the weekend right? Well, here's something to pass those long
> hours at work.

> Get your thinking caps on because I want some inspired ideas that I can
> pass off as my own at work.

> We're doing a book display (unusual in a library, granted) but we want to
> use quotes about reading or books, just to dot around the books and on the
> walls etc.

> Obviously, the first one I came up with was
> "There's more to life than books you know, but not much more"

> We have also got one from Oscar Wilde
> "There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book, just good and bad
> writers"

> We're looking for quotes from songs, books, films (anywhere, really) that
> are related to books.

> Thanks mateys.
> x

Good to hear your taking my suggestions to the board!! haha.. OK, here's my further thoughts..

Musically, for some reason, 'Kooks' by David Bowie springs to mind...

"I bought you a pair of shoes
A trumpet you can blow
And a book of rules
On what to say to people when they pick on you
’cause if you stay with us you’re gonna be pretty kookie too"

Bookish quotes..

"A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously
offended by it.". TS Eliot

I think the following is from Stephen Fry (maybe froim his book, the liar)

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.".

"Who cares about lyrics in songs, if you want to read, go buy a book'
Ruffian (That's an origional, put me on your board)

Take a picture afterwards.. and not one of you and Marty, the Librarians current fancy!
Ruffian

Milton:
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, enbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life"

Belle and Sebastian:
"Our aspirations are wrapped up in books"

South Park:
"Reading Rocks!"

In order highbrow to lowbrow, or is it the other way round?
And I'm sure there's some good stuff in Fahrenheit 451, but I'm really too tired right now.

Thank you all !!

Almodis - that site is top.

Crushing - I knew there HAD to be a Belle and Sebastian book quote, but none sprung to mind, so many thanks for that.

Ruffian - Stop gossiping about me and my ...collegues

Tingle - xx

> Milton:
> "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, enbalmed
> and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life"

> Belle and Sebastian:
> "Our aspirations are wrapped up in books"

> South Park:
> "Reading Rocks!"

> In order highbrow to lowbrow, or is it the other way round?
> And I'm sure there's some good stuff in Fahrenheit 451, but I'm really too
> tired right now.

"There isn't a cup of tea largest enough or a book long enough to satisfy me." CS Lewis.

Ditto LOF.

A woman is like a good book, hard to put down, runs riot with your imagination, can make you laugh & cry within 5 minutes & looks great under the cover? & when you get to the end you just shelve it!

Grim O'Grady

Where's me readers?

Peter Kay

Here's a good one to inspire the kiddies - and from a librarian.

"Get Stewed: Books are a load of crap."

You're more than a number in my little red book (cant remember who by)

Girl Least Likely To - 'there's a publisher she said in the next year, it's never in this year....

The Goat

There's a great scene in the Beatles movie "Hard Day's Night" where Ringo is being slagged off mercilessly for reading a book.

Too long a scene to transcribe here but worth checking out for comedy purposes alone...really!

Best pop movie ever made.

Ah, we already clocked that one. Thanks Flopper. You can't beat a bit of Larkin.

There's another one of his quotes that goes something like
"f*** books, f*** books, f*** books"

> Here's a good one to inspire the kiddies - and from a librarian.

> "Get Stewed: Books are a load of crap."