Books quotes

“I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.”
Reese Witherspoon

- Dr. Alice Howland: I need something to read.
- Dr. John Howland: I thought you were reading "Moby Dick".
- Dr. Alice Howland: Yeah, I was. But I got tired of reading the same page over and over again. I can't focus.
- Dr. John Howland: Well, that happens to me when I read "Moby Dick" too.
Julianne Moore - Dr. Alice Howland
Alec Baldwin - Dr. John Howland

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Will Ferrell - Franz Liebkind

“This book doesn't have any answers!”

Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

The book says, "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us".
Philip Baker Hall - Jimmy Gator

“What's really great about learning the manly art of fishing is that it gives you loads of time to think about what you read in the secret library. And the books give you loads of things to think about while you're fishing.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

“- Phil Blackwood: You're reading one of my books... I thought you were strictly Proust and Dostoevsky?
- Nina Lonescu: Well, I could not go to sleep last night and I knew this would help.”
Tom Selleck - Phil Blackwood
Paulina Porizkova - Nina Lonescu

“This Bible is the first book ever printed. It represents the dawn of the Age of Reason. As far as I'm concerned, the written word is mankind's greatest achievement.”

Tom Rooney - Jeremy

“The power of another dimension. Now you are not going to read about this dimension in a book or a magazine because it exists nowhere but in my own mind.”
Jane Lynch - Laurie Bohner

“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”
Anthony Minghella

“I'm a huge comic book collector.”
James Mangold

“The goal: to explore a continent we had only known in books.”

Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.”
Darren Aronofsky

- Nick Lang: When are you going to get me something with a little relevance, a little social conscience, something that doesn't have a goddamn Roman numeral in the title? You ever hear of "Hamlet III", "Midsummer Night's IV"?
- Angie: They made "Henry V"! It won awards for that little Scottish guy!
Michael J. Fox - Nick Lang
Penny Marshall - Angie

Customs held up another order of books at the border. They're claiming the books are pornographic... hello? Which they aren't. Well, maybe "Butches in Chains" is, but so what?
Marya Delver - Carla

“- John Trent: This book is going to drive people absolutely mad!
- Jackson Harglow: Well, let's hope so. The movie comes out next month.”
Sam Neill - John Trent
Charlton Heston - Jackson Harglow

“I came here to strangle you!”

Woody Allen - Isaac

“- Waitress: What are you writing?
- JJ Lask: A book.
- Waitress: Ah, a writer.
- JJ Lask: This is actually going to be made into a movie.
- Waitress: The movie is never as good as the book.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask
Judy Del Giudice - Waitress

“I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... life well spent!”
Hank Azaria - Comic Book Guy

“A life is like a book. A book is like a box. A box has six sides. Inside and outside, so, how do you get to what's inside? How do you get what's inside, out? Once upon a time, there lived a very pretty girl, who lived in a beautiful box, and everybody loved her.”
Angelina Jolie - Gia Carangi

“When I get that book, I will rule the world! Think of it: famine! War! Death!”

Severn Darden - Van Helsing

“- Tuptim: For your room, Mrs. Anna.
- Anna Leonowens: Oh, how lovely!
- Anna Leonowens: Oh, you must have something in return.
- Tuptim: Oh no, Mrs. Anna, you will be punished for giving book to servant!
- Anna Leonowens: Oh, nonsense, I'm a teacher.”

Armi Arabe Abiera - Tuptim
Miranda Richardson - Anna Leonowens

“- Akeelah: Why would anybody want to represent a school where they can't even put doors on the toilet stalls?
- Mr. Welch: Akeelah, if we can't show students can perform we're not going to have money for books let alone bathroom doors.”

Keke Palmer - Akeelah
Curtis Armstrong - Mr. Welch

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
Oprah Winfrey

“My name is Peter Fallow. I'm a writer. But you know that already. Unless you haven't read a newspaper or seen the television in the last few months, you know exactly who I am. I am the man of the moment. Hero of the evening. Me and a little book I happened to write.”
Bruce Willis - Peter Fallow