Browsing Quotes With Tag: books (12)
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Chain bookstores always amaze me, because it seems like someone has written a book about absolutely everything. I think that’s why bookstores have become the hot place for single adults to hook up – bookstores have a built-in pick-up line that always fits the situation. You simply walk up to any desirable person in the place, look at whatever section they’re in, and you say (with a certain sense of endearing bewilderment), “Isn’t it insane how many books there are about ____?” Fill in the blank with any subject at which the individual happens to be looking, and you will always seem perceptive. Of course there’s going to be a ridiculous number of books on draft horses (or David Berkowitz, or the pipe organ renaissance, or theories about the mating habits of the Sasquatch, or whatever), and you will both enjoy the chuckle over the concept of literary overkill. The best part of this scheme is that it actually seems spontaneous. Bookstores have always been a great place for liars and sexual predators.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Speaker: Elizabeth Barret BrowningPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Speaker: Robertson DaviesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Speaker: René DescartesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Speaker: Sir Richard SteelePosted: 07 Oct 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 01 Oct 2008 at 4:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So many books, so little time.
Speaker: Frank ZappaPosted: 01 Oct 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Speaker: Marcus Tullius CiceroPosted: 01 Oct 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Speaker: Thomas CarlylePosted: 08 Sep 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!