Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. — Karl Lagerfeld
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. — Charlaine Harris
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. — Kathryn Stockett
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books. — Mark Zuckerberg
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
We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people. — Nick Saban
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. — Will Smith
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. — Warren Buffett
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. — Victor Papanek
He who buys what he does not need stels from himself.
Money can't buy you happiness but it buys you all the things you don't have, even friends. — PewDiePie
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do. — Vivienne Westwood
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. — John Spence
It's not what you buy, it's what you pay. And success in investing doesn't come from buying good things, but from buying things well. And if you don't know the difference, you're in the wrong business. — Howard Marks
I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy. — Walter Matthau
Don't buy a coin because someone especially famous people said something. only buy coins you like yourself for some intrinsic reason. — Changpeng Zhao
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. — Akira Toriyama
Everyone believes something is risky, unwillingness to buy, price falls — Howard Marks
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. — David Ogilvy
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's? — Paul Tudor Jones
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that. — John Tesh
It’s not something you can buy. No amount of money or power will bring you true, unconditional love. — Naval Ravikant
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish. — Arne Glimcher
Used Books Quotes
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? — Lemmy Kilmister
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. — Jeremy Collier
I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company. — Ida Tarbell
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. — Dick Gregory
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley
Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism. — S. R. Ranganathan
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him. — S. R. Ranganathan
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. — Oscar Wilde
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — Woody Allen
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. — Paul McCartney
It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. — Jim Rohn
Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a software product. go on many first dates. go to a cocktail party. read a lindy book. move to a big city. buy bitcoin. tweet. — Naval Ravikant
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean De La Bruyere
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. — David Quammen
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
Here is your first piece of good news: if you are reading this, then you are already in the top 10 percent. Most people buy stuff and then promptly ignore it. I can also throw out a spoiler: the further you get in the book, the bigger the nuggets become. Just watch. This book delivers. The world needs more entrepreneurs. It needs more fighters. It needs more magic. And that’s what I’m sharing with you – magic. — Alex Hormozi
My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life. — John Waters
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are reaching for the excuse of lead poisoning. If they can push that idea through, you may wind up still owning your guns but without anything to shoot in them. — Jeff Cooper
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. — Marilyn Hacker
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King
The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me. — Huey Long
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! — Jim Rohn
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? — Edith Wharton
I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care. — Christopher Darden
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt
We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. — Cassandra Clare
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.' — Stephen Fry
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it. — John Waters
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. — Walter Benjamin
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it. — Cynthia Ozick
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger
We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. — Clifford Stoll
A book worth reading is worth buying. — John Ruskin
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out. — Jay London
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it. — John Ruskin
You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like, "Hey, how's that book?" "I haven't read it." "Oh, did you just buy it?" "I've had it since high school." "Well, can I borrow it?" "No." — Jim Gaffigan
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family. — Colleen Hoover
I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff. — Jude Law
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right. — Sayings
I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it. — Sayings
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. — Lord Chesterfield
I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed. — Gregory Maguire
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. — Katherine Paterson
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. — Bruce Schneier
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life. — Gabrielle Zevin
I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys. — George Burns
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