Quotes About Second Hand Books

#1. Second hand books have a way of travelling, sure. But what travels forward can come back.

Cath Crowley

#2. Demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.

Graham Joyce

#3. I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just what that smell was. In the end I decided it was the smell of human thought embedded in paper.

Heather Rose

#4. Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: ', with love from Momma.

Vincent Starrett

#5. Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf

#6. My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Alejandro Amenabar

#7. A quote from "Dead Men Don't Kill.

These were tears from heaven. They were second hand sadness.

Viveca Benoir

#8. I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

Mo Udall

#9. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

Val McDermid

#10. In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.

Rachel Hall

#11. Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?

Dada Bhagwan

#12. crew like garbage, when they aren't pretending we're their whores. The best day was when that cokehead

Viv Daniels

#13. Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

William Kristol

#14. I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

Jenna Dewan

#15. The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

Athanasius

#16. The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar

Paul Valery

#17. Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.

Niklas Zennstrom

#18. When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

S.A. Tawks

#19. People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

Douglas Crockford

#20. Experience does not necessarily lead to understanding,' the

Daniel Polansky

#21. To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

Virginia Woolf

#22. If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Mark Haddon

#23. When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

Mark Zuckerberg