City Of Dreaming Books Quotes

#1. He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

Laini Taylor

#2. Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Walter Moers

#3. No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Walter Moers

#4. I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

Walter Moers

#5. When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

Walter Moers

#7. Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Jessica Zafra

#8. There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.

Walter Moers

#9. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

Frances Fox Piven

#10. I am furiously happy. It's not a cure for mental illness ... it's a weapon, designed to counter it. It's a way to take back some of the joy that's robbed from you when you're crazy.

Jenny Lawson

#11. I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.

Walter Moers

#12. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

Walter Moers

#13. Love is the only thing that you can give and give and give and never run out of; it is also the only thing that, the more you give, the more you have.

Carlos Salinas

#14. The learning principle is to plunge into the detailed mystery of the micro in order to understand what makes the macro tick. Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture.

Josh Waitzkin

#15. We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal ... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

Peter McWilliams

#16. Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

Russell Lynes

#17. You're not like anyone I've ever known. I want to be with you ... really be with you. Only you. I've never felt this way about anyone. And I know I sound like a freaking Hallmark card, but it's true. I've never wanted all the things I want to have when I'm with you.

Emma Chase

#18. One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

#19. Run the Race till the End, no one knew what would happen next second. Serve your purpose.

Giridhar Alwar