Blake Mycoskie Quotes

Home is where your books are.

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

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

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

To start with, look at all the books.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.