Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. 

Tags: books   inspirational   life   stargirl   tears     


Katy Perry  - Quotes

 I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings. 

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Ezra Pound  - Quotes

 Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. 

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Ezra Pound  - Quotes

 There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight 

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Far from Heaven  - Quotes

 Cathy Whitaker:
That was the day I stopped believing in the wild ardor of things. Perhaps in love, as well. That kind of love. The love in books and films. The love that tells us to abandon our lives and plans, all for one brief touch of Venus. So often we fail at that kind of love. The world just seems too fragile a place for it. And of every other kind, life remains full. Perhaps it's just we who are too fragile.
 

Morrissey  - Quotes

 With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. 

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John Waters  - Quotes

 If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! 

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Fran Lebowitz  - Quotes

 Think before you speak. Read before you think. 

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Sarah Bower  - Quotes

 Sometimes I dance, alone, to music no-one can hear but me. When I dance I feel the beat of the earth 

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The Holiday  - Quotes

 Graham:
I'm a full-time dad. I'm a working parent. I'm a mother and a father. I'm a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go to sleep. I spend my weekends buying tutus. I'm learning to sew. I'm Mr. Napkin Head!
 

Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train. 

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Celebrity  - Quotes

 Robin Simon:
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
 

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Alberto Manguel  - Quotes

 I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books. 

Tags: books   child   chilldhood   read   reading     
Sin City  - Quotes

 Nancy, Age 11:
They won't let me testify. I told the cops that you saved my life and they just acted like I was crazy. They talked my parents into keeping me away. They said that you done things that you didn't do. I told them that you saved me from that Roark creep, but they won't even check me out to see if I'm still a virgin. I'm still a virgin, still alive... thanks to you. They got it all backwards.
John Hartigan:
Sometimes the truth doesn't matter like it ought. But you'll always remember things right. That's gonna mean a lot to me. But stay away, Nancy. They'll kill you if you don't stay away. Don't visit me. Don't write me. Don't even say my name.
Nancy, Age 11:
Maybe you won't let me visit, but I'll still write to you, Hartigan. I'll sign my letters "Cordelia." That's the name of a really cool detective in books I read. I'll write to you every week... for forever.
John Hartigan:
Sure, kid. Now run on home. It's not safe for you here. [Nancy walks away]
John Hartigan:
Bye, Nancy. [Nancy turns around at the door]
Nancy, Age 11:
I love you.
 

Inkheart  - Quotes

 Elinor Loredan:
But I just adore everything Persian.
Meggie Folchart:
You've been to Persia, then?
Elinor Loredan:
Yes, a hundred times. Along with St. Petersburg, Paris, Middle-Earth, distant planets and Shangri-la. And I never had to leave this room. Books are adventure. They contain murder and mayhem and passion. They love anyone who opens them.
 

Scott Westerfeld  - Quotes

 When she awoke, the world was on fire. 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 

Tags: books   reading     
Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. 

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My Blue Heaven  - Quotes

 
[Vincent Antonelli is questioned about the stolen goods in the trunk of the car he stole]
Hannah Stubbs:
The books...
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:
You have something against books?
Hannah Stubbs:
I have nothing about books! I am curious about the books in your trunk.
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:
You see, I was thinking of writing my story, so I bought this one on how to do it.
Hannah Stubbs:
Why do you need 25 copies of it?
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:
In case I want to read it more than once...
 

George Carlin  - Quotes

 I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. 

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The Grand  - Quotes

 Harold Melvin:
It is apparent that you have no concept of pot odds. There are a number of books available in the gift shop that explain it quite thoroughly.
 

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Inkheart  - Quotes

 Dustfinger:
His name's Gwin. And I know he looks charming, but you know what they say about books and covers.
Meggie Folchart:
Yes, I do. And I also know what they say about talking to strangers. Excuse me.
Dustfinger:
But I'm no stranger, Meggie.
 

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Yann Martel  - Quotes

 Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. 

Tags: analogy   books     
The Jane Austen Book Club  - Quotes

 Grigg Harris:
One day, I'm like 10 years old, my dad takes me back to the shed and he shows me some magazines that he keeps back there. He says, "This is strictly guy stuff. It's top secret. Very private. Tell no one." [he shows a sci-fi magazine and laughs]
Grigg Harris:
So from then on... It was like... I don't know... It's like me and my dad and science fiction. These were the first books I fell in love with, and I never got over it.
 

Comic Book: The Movie  - Quotes

 Ricky:
I notice that a lot of these comic books you're selling are old, and I think maybe you'd do more business if you got some brand-new ones, because people like to have new stuff more than old.
 

Salman Rushdie  - Quotes

 A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. 

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James Patterson  - Quotes

 I can talk to fish! 

Tags: books   humor     
Jane Bled  - Quotes

 Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.  

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Shanghai Knights  - Quotes

 Roy:
Chon, I have a confession to make.
Chon Wang:
You are in love with my sister?
Roy:
Well, that, but I didn't lose all the money on the zeppelins.
Chon Wang:
No?
Roy:
Nah. I blew most of it on the Roy O'Bannon novels. I wrote them.
Chon Wang:
No, Sage McCallister wrote them.
Roy:
That's what I'm saying, buddy. I'm Sage McCallister.
Chon Wang:
You wrote those lies?
Roy:
I've always had low self-esteem.
Chon Wang:
How many books did you print?
Roy:
I self-published probably a million copies. We were actually second to the Bible that year.
 

Malcolm in the Middle  - Quotes

 Lois:
They have a special program for gifted children. They have advanced textbooks and devoted teachers and all sorts of good things they don't wanna waste on normal kids.
 

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Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations  - Quotes

 Anthony:
Pretty much all I know about Sweden comes from travel books and subtitled foreign films. [Cut to a "Swedish film"; a barren winter landscape narrated by a man and woman speaking in Swedish, with English subtitles]
Man:
When does the bus come?
Woman:
The bus never comes.
Man:
Then I want to die.
Woman:
We all want to die. [Beat]
Woman:
I hear ABBA is considering a reunion tour. [Beat]
Man:
Really?
Anthony:
[voiceover] Ahh, Sweden...
 

Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.



American novels, answered Lord Henry.
 

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Alberto Manguel  - Quotes

 Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.  

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A Few Good Men  - Quotes

 Galloway:
Hi there.
Kaffee:
Having any luck in getting me replaced?
Galloway:
Is there anyone in the command that you don't either drink or play softball with?
Kaffee:
Commander, I...
Galloway:
Look, I came to make peace. We started off on the wrong foot. What do you say? Friends?
Kaffee:
I don't think...
Galloway:
I went and saw Downey this afternoon. I brought him some comic books he had been asking for. This kid, Kaffee, I swear, he doesn't know where he is. He doesn't even know why he's been arrested.
Kaffee:
Commander?
Galloway:
You can call me Joanne.
Kaffee:
Joanne?
Galloway:
Or Joe.
Kaffee:
Joe?
Galloway:
Yes?
Kaffee:
If you speak to a client of mine again without my permission, I'll have you disbarred. Friends?
Galloway:
I had authorization.
Kaffee:
From who?
Galloway:
Downey's only living relative, Ginny Miller, his aunt on his mother's side.
Kaffee:
You got authorization from Aunt Ginny?
Galloway:
I gave her a call like you asked. She's a very nice woman we spoke for nearly an hour.
Kaffee:
You got authorization from Aunt Ginny.
Galloway:
Perfectly within my province.
Kaffee:
Does Aunt Ginny have a barn? We can hold the trial there. I can sew the costumes. Maybe his Uncle Goober can be the judge.
Galloway:
I'm going to Cuba with you tomorrow.
Kaffee:
And the hits just keep on coming.
 

Jack & Bobby  - Quotes

 Jack McCallister:
You're just a lonely, pathetic middle-aged woman who hides behind her words and her books and her freak of a teenage son!
Grace McCallister:
Shut up!
 

Steven Wright  - Quotes

 I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. 

Tags: books   humor     
Natasha Bedingfield  - Quotes

 Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten
 

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Men in Black  - Quotes

 
[In a shooting range, confronted with numerous menacing-looking targets, Edwards shoots a cardboard little girl]
Zed:
May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?
James Edwards:
Well, she was the only one that actually seemed dangerous at the time, sir.
Zed:
How'd you come to that conclusion?
James Edwards:
Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it. [pause]
James Edwards:
Or do I owe her an apology? [pauses again]
James Edwards:
That's a good shot though...
 

That Thing You Do!  - Quotes

 Guy:
[first lines; phone rings at Patternson's] Patterson's.
Mr. Patterson:
What's going on down there?
Guy:
Dad?
Mr. Patterson:
Harriet Priestly just called your mama. Her husband drove by the store and said the lights are still on. What are the lights still doing on?
Guy:
Cookin' the books as usual, Dad.
Mr. Patterson:
The sign, Guy. The sign is still on. Are we open for business all night now?
Guy:
Uh, no. Sorry, I'll uh, turn that right off.
Mr. Patterson:
Is that music playing on one of them store hi-fis?
Guy:
I'll turn that right off, too.
Mr. Patterson:
[mimicking] 'Turn that off, too.'
 

In the Mouth of Madness  - Quotes

 John Trent:
Your books SUCK!
 

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The Grand  - Quotes

 Harold Melvin:
It is apparent that you have no concept of pot odds. There are a number of books available in the gift shop that explain it quite thoroughly. Also, you have corn in your teeth.
 

Tags: Books Quotes     
Pride and Prejudice  - Quotes

 Elizabeth:
Can I help you?
Will Darcy:
[curtly] I doubt it.
Elizabeth:
Oh - you're from England. My ancestors came from Hertford -
Will Darcy:
[cuts her off] Charming. [beat]
Will Darcy:
Okay, I'm looking for a book on writing by Kierkegaard - K - I - E -
Elizabeth:
[cuts him off] Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism. You're in "Landscape Gardening".
Will Darcy:
Oh, really... [picks a couple books from the shelf]
Will Darcy:
I had no idea that Mark Twain's genius extended to gardening. Or... Dr. Phil's.
Elizabeth:
[curtly] "Philosophy" is two aisles over. Help yourself!
 

Neal Stephenson  - Quotes

 Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words. 

Tags: authorship   books   media   technology     
The Station Agent  - Quotes

 
[last lines]
Joe Oramas:
It's the librarian fantasy, man. Glasses off, hair down, books flying.
Finbar McBride:
She doesn't wear glasses.
Olivia Harris:
Well, buy her some, it's worth it.
 

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James Patterson  - Quotes

 They turned to Angel.  

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Mortimer J. Adler  - Quotes

 The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. 

Tags: books   children   curiosity   knowledge     
Crimson Tide  - Quotes

 Hunter:
Rivetti, what's up?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
I'm sorry, Sir. It's just a difference of opinion that got out of hand.
Hunter:
What about?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
It's really too silly to talk about, Sir. I'd really just forget about...
Hunter:
I don't give a damn about what you'd rather forget about. Why were you two fighting?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
I said, the Kirby Silver Surfer was the only real Silver Surfer. And that the Moebius Silver Surfer was shit. And Bennefield's a big Moebius fan. And it got of hand. I pushed him. He pushed me. I lost my head, Sir. I'm Sorry.
Hunter:
Rivetti, you're a supervisor. You can get a commission like that. [Snaps finger]
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
I know, Sir. You're 100 percent right. It will never happen again.
Hunter:
It better not happen again. If I see this kind of nonsense again, I'm going to write you up. You understand?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
[No answer]
Hunter:
Do you understand?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
Yes, Sir.
Hunter:
You have to set an example even in the face of stupidity. Everybody who reads comic books knows that the Kirby Silver Surfer is the only true Silver Surfer. Now am I right or wrong?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
You're right, Sir.
Hunter:
Now get out of here.
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti:
Yes, Sir.
 

The Producers  - Quotes

 Max Bialystock:
How did it begin? He walked into my office with his cockamamy scheme! You can make more money with a flop than with a hit! We can do it. We can do it. I can't do it. We can do it. I can't do it. Good-bye Max! Oh Lord I want that money! I'm back Max! Come on Leo we can do it! Step 1: Find the Play! See it, Smell it, Touch it, Kiss it! Hello Mr. Liebkind! Guten Tag, hop hop Guten Tag, clop clop! Adolf Elizabeth Hitler? Guten Tag, hop hop Guten Tag, clop clop! Step 2: Hire the Director Keep it gay, keep it gay, keep it Two-three, kick, turn, turn, turn, kick, turn! Ulla! Oooh wah weee wah wah wow wowie! Step 3: Raise the Money! Along Came Bialy! Step 4: Hire all the actors! A wandering minstrel I, A thing of shreds and... Next! The little wooden boy. Next! That's our Hitler! Break a leg! I broke my leg! Springtime for Hitler and Germany- A surprise smash! Springtime for Hitler and Germany- It'll run for years! Where did we go right? Where did we go right? Gimme those books Fat, fat, fatty! Gimme those books! Fat, fat, fatty! Books, fat! Books, fat! Books, fat! Books, fat! Lousy fruit- Kill the actors You ever eat with one? Then you ran to Rio And you're safely out of reach, I'm behind these bars you're banging Ulla on the beach! Just like Julius Caesar was betrayed by Brutus, Who'd think an accountant would turn out to be my Judas! I'm so dismayed, is this how I'm repaid? To be... Betrayed! BETRAYED!
 

Virginia Woolf  - Quotes

 What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water? 

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Orhan Pamuk  - Quotes

 Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.  

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Miss Congeniality  - Quotes

 Cheryl "Rhode Island":
My idea of a perfect date would be a man who takes me to a romantic dinner, and then we walk along the beach barefoot discussing books and - and music and - and movies.
Karen "New York":
No wonder you're still a virgin.
 

Reckless  - Quotes

 Rachel:
I was thinking about how people in movies and books are always getting puppies on Christmas. But you never have to see anyone cleaning up the...
Therapist:
Shit?
Rachel:
...or get hit by cars. You just see them with a big red bow, and the kids are smiling.
 

Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 She'd also called me brave... unless she was talking to the catfish. 

Tags: books   humor     
The Jane Austen Book Club  - Quotes

 Grigg Harris:
What about me? Am I your friend? Or am I just some widget to help you make Sylvia feel better about herself? Why did you invite me to be part of your book club? What went through your mind the first time you saw me? "There's a man who is dying to read every book Jane Austen ever wrote." Is that what you thought?
Jocelyn:
No.
Grigg Harris:
But I thought, "What a beautiful woman. I hope she looks over at me." I thought if I read your favorite books that you would read mine. But, no, no, no, no... You just want to be obeyed. That's why you have dogs.
 

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Idiocracy  - Quotes

 Pvt. Joe Bowers:
[addressing Congress] There was a time when reading wasn't just for fags. And neither was writing. People wrote books and movies. Movies with stories, that made you care about whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!
 

Stevie Nicks  - Quotes

 Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery. 

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About Adam  - Quotes

 Laura Owens:
I admit it, I was amazed. He's nothing like anyone you've ever gone out with before, so what's the change?
Lucy Owens:
I'm maturing.
Laura Owens:
Even his name, it's so not you. It's so primal - Adam.
Lucy Owens:
Yeah, yeah, it's a crap name, all right.
Laura Owens:
And he reads. He can quote Christina Rossetti.
Lucy Owens:
Oh. What'd he do that for?
Laura Owens:
It came up and you know, she's not exactly a household name as a poet so I have to say, I approve totally. I just hope you're ready for you know, whatever happens.
Lucy Owens:
Oh yeah, I'm full of surprises. So, are you jealous?
Laura Owens:
Come on, that's unfair.
Lucy Owens:
[voice over of Lucy thinking to herself] Poor Laura. Of course she's not jealous. Too good-natured. Wouldn't it be deadly, though if it turns out to be me that has this great passion she's always going on about?
Laura Owens:
Hold on a sec, I just want to buy this
Lucy Owens:
[voice over continues] Another book. Doesn't she know books won't do it?
 

Shining Through  - Quotes

 Ed Leland:
What I was going to ask you to do is stand up, turn around, and close your eyes and tell me everything you see in the room. It's an observation test. Do you really have a problem with that?
Linda Voss:
Pictures of sailboats and polo ponies; fancy books and diplomas; stuffed fish on the wall; calendar set to the wrong date; bookcases that need dusting; carpets that need cleaning; and a couple of guys from Harvard who are surprised that a girl who needs a job won't be treated like a slave.
 

Moonlight Mile  - Quotes

 
[Jo Jo is throwing self help books into a fire]
Ben Floss:
Those were gifts.
Jo Jo Floss:
"Grieving for Grownups"?
Ben Floss:
They're supposed to be helpful.
Jo Jo Floss:
Please. THIS is helpful. [Throws another book into the fire]
 

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford  - Quotes

 Frank James:
You're not so special, Mr. Ford. You're just like any other tyro who's prinked himself up for an escapade, hoping to be a gunslinger like them nickel books are about. You may as well quench your mind of it, because you don't have the ingredients, son.
Robert Ford:
Well, I'm sorry to hear you feel that way, as I put such stock in your opinion. As for me being a gunslinger, I've just got this one granddaddy Paterson Colt and a borrowed belt to stick it in. But I also got an appetite for greater things. I hoped by joining up with you, it'd put me that much closer to getting them.
Frank James:
Well, what am I supposed to say to that?
Robert Ford:
Let me be your sidekick tonight.
Frank James:
Sidekick?
Robert Ford:
So you can examine my grit and intelligence.
Frank James:
I don't know what it is about you, but the more you talk, the more you give me the willies. Now I don't believe I want you anywhere within earshot this evening, okay? You understand?
Robert Ford:
Well, I'm sorry...
Frank James:
Why don't you just get, now? Scat!
 



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