Quotes About Expensive Books

#1. What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked.
"Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read.

Ruta Sepetys

#2. It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

Jeffery Deaver

#4. Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

Mehmet Oz

#6. Putside it's cold... I have a phone a book I can't buy... it's too expensive.. what has been left from my father has end... killers are cold, people are cold, films are cold and books are cold... where I am going to reach with this???

Deyth Banger

#7. Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.

Donald J. Trump

#8. True love that lasts forever ... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

Zooey Deschanel

#9. And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

George Orwell

#10. Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.

Candice Olson

#11. Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.

Anita Elberse

#12. Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Billy Graham

#13. Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

David Copperfield

#15. Passion and Carrier will never coincide for most of the people. If it does, they are considered to be legends!!

Nelson Jack

#16. Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

M.J. Rose

#17. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Stephen R. Covey

#18. The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

Joseph Lancaster

#19. Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

Gabriel Zaid

#20. Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life?

Lisa Kleypas

#21. I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

Demetri Martin

#22. The woman led us into a living room. A decent-sized space. Expensive furniture and rugs. A big TV. No stereo, no books. It all looked a bit halfhearted. Like somebody had spent twenty minutes with a catalog and ten thousand dollars.

Lee Child

#23. I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

Tao Lin

#24. I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

Nathan Fillion

#25. She begins to undress and I soak in every curve, every part of her that she sees as a flaw and I see as a revelation.

Sara Farizan

#26. People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

Harper Lee

#27. This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is so widespread that it deserves some detailed examination.

George Orwell

#28. Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

James Surowiecki

#29. Books were expensive, as well. But she'd read enough of them to know that they were only as valuable as the contents of their writers' minds - and to her it seemed that a great many writers, had they been merchants, would have precious little inventory.

Jim Butcher

#30. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon