Quotes About Smelling Books

#1. I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

Joe Budden

#2. The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Arthur Koestler

#3. We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#4. Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper's smoothness, smelling the sheets, the leather, even sometimes the ink, centered her.

M.J. Rose

#6. A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

Laozi

#7. When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

Kevin Grevioux

#8. It's the only thing I begrudge the rich," I said, as I followed him back down the damp-smelling staircase to the ground floor.
"What's that?"
"Their ability to buy books that the rest of us can never hope to own.

Susanna Kearsley

#9. A half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful.

Donald Miller

#10. BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

Jay Leno

#11. You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Lionel Shriver

#13. Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#14. So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?

Rich Sommer

#18. What she had come to understand ... was that mourning was no crime. it wasn't her feeling all boo-hoo sorry for herself, or being disgustingly self - engrossed, it was what you had to do to go on.

Julia Gregson