Dust Jackets Books Quotes

#1. I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.

Chloe Thurlow

#2. tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights
the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind
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Frank Stanford

#3. Damn it all to hell," he muttered, banging his socket wrench on the metal cart behind him. "Because," he began, shifting his eyes over at me, "because you took his word over mine.

Nicole Williams

#4. The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.

Ray Bradbury

#5. I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

Natalie Dormer

#6. Love will abide, take things in stride.

Linda Ronstadt

#7. It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

William Butler Yeats

#9. Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

Sigmund Freud

#10. I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath, only now the floodgates in my chest opened...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.

Lauren Oliver

#12. For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Viggo Mortensen

#14. Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

Frederick Sommer

#15. I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.

Rick Mercer

#16. Where does it lead, this rockrose path?

Laura Treacy Bentley

#17. For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ...

Ray Bradbury

#18. Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.

Paulo Coelho