Osip Mandelstam Quotes

Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.

He was a walking library.

I'm an educated individual.

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

I was this weird little bookish giant.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

I'm a nerdy guy who likes to read a lot.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

Of course I loved books more than people.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.