Roxane Gay Quotes

Books, the children of the brain.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

To start with, look at all the books.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.