Books quotes

“In life you don't get the girl. Lying is easier than the truth. That's why I write!”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask

“It's not the Bible, you're not gonna go to Hell for this.”

Robin Williams - John Keating

“- Valo: Alright dude, seriously just relax okay? Look at that girl over there. She's reading a book alone. If that's not an invitation, I don't know what is.
- Ry: What are you talking about, Valo? It's a coffee shop. People like that come here to get away from people like us.”
Bam Margera - Valo
Ryan Dunn - Ry

“We get 'em all: sun-worshippers, moon-worshippers, Satanists. The Manson family used to hang around and shoplift. Bunch of deadbeats!”

Dick Miller - Walter Paisley - Bookstore Owner

“- Barney Cousins: What's this? Wuthering Heights? Denise, is it not sufficient that while you shall be at peace, I shall ride in the torments of hell?
- Denise Cousins: ... It's romantic.
- Barney Cousins: If they can put it in a book it's not romantic. Romance has to be secret.”
Jeff Bridges - Barney Cousins
Maggie Linderman - Denise Cousins

“There's so many things I don't understand, like why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after a heavy rain? Why do you hear the waves inside the big shells? Why are all these funny hairs growing on me? I wish a big book with all the answers to every question in the world would drop out of the sky and land in my hands right...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Atkins - Richard Lestrange

“- Dr. Grant: You're alive and that's the important thing. And thanks to you, that's one thing we have in common. Did you read Malcolm's book?
- Eric: Yeah.
- Dr. Grant: So?
- Eric: I don't know. I mean, it was kind of preachy. And too much chaos. Everything's chaos. It seemed like the guy was kind of high on himself.
- Dr. Grant: That's two...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant
Trevor Morgan - Eric Kirby

“- Bonnie: Apparently his first two books...
- Lee Simon: They were obliterated. I got the 3 esses: self-indulgent, sophomoric, sollipsistic...”
Famke Janssen - Bonnie
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Lee Simon

“- Gaston: [rudely flipping through Belle's book] How can you read this? There's no pictures!
- Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.”
Richard White - Gaston
Paige O'Hara - Belle

“There's also no textbook telling you what to think.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“- Trevor Garfield: Has anybody read 'Animal Farm'?
- Cesar: No, but I fucked a sheep once.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Trevor Garfield
Clifton Collins Jr. - Cesar Sanchez

“When I'm reading a book, I don't need a first edition to enjoy it. A dollar copy is good enough so long as the words are there.”
Marlon Brando

"Me in Camp F"? What's this, a gay prison story?

Vic Reeves - Bendle

“No matter how many books you read, there is something in this world that you never ever ever ever ever fucking understand.”
David Thewlis - Johnny

“- Mrs. Starret: A boy should be spending his summer outside with friends. Don't you have any friends?
- Ben Hanscom: Can I have the book now?”
Elizabeth Saunders - Mrs. Starret
Jeremy Ray Taylor - Ben Hanscom

“- Emma Dinsmore: What's your book about?
- Alex Sheldon: It's the story of a man who's frightened of commitment yet so desperately in love with a woman he's afraid it might kill him. It's a comedy.”
Kate Hudson - Emma Dinsmore
Luke Wilson - Alex Sheldon

“When I was a kid, my dad was on the road a lot. He would give me a box full books, call me every night and quiz me. I'd get an ice cream cone for every book I read, so I was a fat kid.”

Chiwetel Ejiofor - Adrian Helmsley

“- Kate Moseley: If you're so bored, why don't you read?
- Doug Dorsey: What, you mean like a book?
- Kate Moseley: That is a traditionally accepted format, yes.”
Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley
D.B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey

“Read, read, read, read! Let me tell you something - last time I read a book, I was raped. Let that be a lesson to you.”

Madeline Kahn - Betty

“- Miranda Priestly: I need the new Harry Potter book for the twins. We have all the published Harry Potter books. The twins want to know what happens next.
- Andy Sachs: You want the unpublished manuscript.
- Miranda Priestly: Well, we know everyone in publishing, so it shouldn't be a problem, should it? And you can do anything. Right?”
Meryl Streep - Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway - Andy Sachs

“Do you want the long version or the short version? And I have to warn you, the long version is in Aramaic.”
Steve Carrell - Uncle Arthur

“- Kate Moseley: What was the last book you read? You were in college?
- Doug Dorsey: The last thing I read in college was the letter canceling my scholarship when I couldn't play anymore.
- Kate Moseley: Okay, high school.
- Doug Dorsey: I was a hockey player. The only thing I had to read was a scoreboard.”
Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley
D.B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey

“The smell of white paper is like the scent of skin of a new lover who has just paid a surprise visit out of a rainy garden. And the black ink is like lacquered hair. And the quill? Well, the quill is like that instrument of pleasure whose purpose is never in doubt but whose surprising efficiency one always, always forgets.”
Vivian Wu - Nagiko

“This is a book written a long time ago. It is called 'The Pillow Book' and written by a lady who has the same first name as you - Nagiko. When you are twenty-eight years old this book will be exactly a thousand years old. Think of that.”
Hideko Yoshida - The Aunt

"George's secrets". There's the shortest book ever written.
John Marwood Cleese - An Ape Named "Ape"