Quotation Search

To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the Search Instructions for details.


Quotation:

   Author:
MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Poor Man's College Rand Lindsly's Quotes
Internet Collections The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

[About the Collections]

Results of search for Quote or Author: Books - Page 3 of 15
Showing results 21 to 30 of 147 total quotations found.
<- Previous Page Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7... Next Page ->

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
[info][add][mail][note]
Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
[info][add][mail][note]
Lenore Hershey
- More quotations on: [Books] [Giving] [Christmas]
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
[info][add][mail][note]
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- More quotations on: [Books] [Thoughts]
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
[info][add][mail][note]
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
- More quotations on: [Books]
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
[info][add][mail][note]
Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
[info][add][mail][note]
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
- More quotations on: [Books] [Writing]
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
[info][add][mail][note]
Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
- More quotations on: [Books]
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
[info][add][mail][note]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
- More quotations on: [Books]
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
[info][add][mail][note]
Paxton Hood
- More quotations on: [Books]
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
[info][add][mail][note]
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- More quotations on: [Books]
<- Previous Page Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7... Next Page ->
Results of search for Quote or Author: Books - Page 3 of 15
Showing results 21 to 30 of 147 total quotations found.

Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..