Books quotes
219 books quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Matilda
“- Matilda: I have the adoption papers.
- Mrs. Wormwood: What? Where did you get those?
- Matilda: From a book in the library. I've had them since I was big enough to xerox.” - From the movie: Sideways
“- Mike Erganian: What is the subject of your book? Non fiction?
- Miles: Uh, no. It's... it's a novel. Fiction. Yes. Although there is quite a bit from my own life... so I suppose that, technically some of it is nonfiction.
- Mike Erganian: Good I like non fiction. There is so much to know about this world. I think you read something somebody...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Aquaman
- La trovi in Spare Time in Hollywood
“I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.”
- From the movie: The Spiderwick Chronicles
- From the movie: The NeverEnding Story
“- Carl Conrad Coreander: Your books are safe. While you're reading them, you get to become Tarzan or Robinson Crusoe.
- Bastian: But that's what I like about 'em.
- Carl Conrad Coreander: Ahh, but afterwards you get to be a little boy again.
- Bastian: Wh-what do you mean?
- Carl Conrad Coreander: Listen. Have you ever been Captain Nemo, trapped...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Hurricane
“Sometimes we don't pick the books we read, they pick us.”
- From the movie: The Day After Tomorrow
- From the movie: The Pagemaster
“- Fantasy: What is this?
- Richard Tyler: It's a library card.
- Fantasy: I'm a book, honey, I can read.” - From the movie: My Blue Heaven
“- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You have something against books?
- Hannah Stubbs: I have nothing about books! I am curious about the books in your trunk.
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You see, I was thinking of writing my story, so I bought this one on how to do it.
- Hannah Stubbs: Why do you need 25 copies of it?
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Matilda
“There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.”
- From the movie: Bridgerton
- From the TV Series: You
- From the TV Series: The Queen's Gambit
“Intuition can’t be found in books.
” - From the TV Series: Gossip Girl
“People like me don’t write books, they’re written about.”
- From the movie: Inherit the Wind
“The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book.”
- From the animation: Alice in Wonderland
“In my world, the books would be nothing but pictures.”
- From the animation: Alice in Wonderland
“When I get home I shall write a book about this place... If I ever do get home.”
- From the movie: Rope
“- Phillip: Rupert only publishes books he likes... usually philosophy.
- Janet: Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.
- Brandon: Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?” - From the movie: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
“- Sherlock Holmes: When a man collects books on a subject, they're usually grouped together, but notice, your King James Bible, your Book of Mormon, and Koran are separate, across the room in fact, from your Hebrew Bible and Talmud, which sit on your desk. Now these books have a special importance for you not connected with a general study of...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The Public
“The public library is the last bastion of democracy that we have in this country!”
- La trovi in Spare Time in Hollywood
“I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.”
- From the movie: Niagara
“- Customs Officer: How long do you plan to be here?
- Ray Cutler: Three days.
- Customs Officer: Honeymooners?
- Polly Cutler: That's right.
- Customs Officer: That isn't liquor you have in that case under your coat, is it?
- Ray Cutler: Uh, books. I'm going to catch up on my reading.
- Customs Officer: Reading!” - From the movie: Coup De Torchon
“- Lucien Cordier: I can't read the aviator's book. It's too well-written.
- Anne: You like sounding illiterate? You're not. So why?
- Lucien Cordier: Habit. Grammar gets rusty like everything else if you don't use it. And in Africa the same goes for good and evil. What's good? What's evil? - Nobody knows. It's not much use here. So it gets rusty...” (continue)(continue reading)
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