Books quotes

“- Mayor Henry Manville: These books must be burned, Professor Sorel.
- Professor Sorel: By your order, Mr. Mayor? Or by order of the enemy?
- Mayor Henry Manville: Voltaire. Plato. The Republic. My dear friend, we have to be careful about that word: Republic.”
Thurston Hall - Mayor Henry Manville
Philip Merivale - Professor Sorel

“- Jeremy: Friedrich Nietzsche! We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche; he was the most important thinker of 19th Century!
- Elsa: Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig, who was in love with his sister.
- Jeremy: He was not a chauvinist pig.
- Elsa: But he was in love with his sister.”

Tom Rooney - Jeremy
Amy Sloan - Elsa

“Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay here the plot can't move forward, the story ends.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“- Doug Dorsey: I was gonna tell you, that book you gave me, it's pretty good.
- Kate Mosley: Really. Using it as a doorstop, or a coaster?”
D.B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey
Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley

“- Marie: I'm looking for a book... something that can help me deal with what might be an awkward situation. Something funny might be nice and, uh, if it could surprise you, and at the same time make you think that what you thought wasn't only right. I'm looking to be swept up! And at the same time, not.
- Dan Burns: Well, you rarely find all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Juliette Binoche - Marie
Steve Carrell - Dan

“Funny, the damage a silly little book can do, especially in the hands of a silly little girl.”
Christian Coulson - Tom Riddle

“Gnaghi, just because we've got the new ones doesn't mean to say we have to throw the old ones away. These books are classics!”

Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“- Katsumoto: I wish to learn.
- Nathan Algren: Read a book.
- Katsumoto: I would rather have a good conversation.”
Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“The first definitive analysis of Lecter will be a publisher's wet dream.”
Anthony Heald - Dr. Frederick Chilton

“- Horror: Horror always has sad endings.
- Fantasy: I come from a world of happy endings, why don't you come with us?”
Frank Welker - Horror
Whoopi Goldberg - Fantasy

“- Philip Edwards: Perhaps you find in books what I try to find in people.
- Elena Hood: That sounds vaguely like an insult.”
Michael Cumpsty - Philip Edwards
Joan Allen - Elena Hood

“So you think your book is worth a human life?”
Isabella Rossellini - Marella Agnelli

“- Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: What it 'bout, that book?
- Cpl. Thomas Searles: It's a collection of essays, actually... Fourier, Emerson... all the transcendentalists.
- Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: [nods smiling] It got pictures?”
Jihmi Kennedy - Pvt. Jupiter Sharts
Andre Braugher - Cpl. Thomas Searles

“- Shelby: I heard about your book, and I don't think it's cute Harper. You know, the next time you want to characterize me in one of your little projects, do me a favor.
- Harper Stewart: What would that be, Shelby?
- Shelby: Don't.”

Melissa De Sousa - Shelby
Taye Diggs - Harper Stewart

- Julian: Call it something catchy, "Reluctant Tourist", and you are the fella to write it.
- Macon: But, I hate to travel.
- Julian: I thought so. So, do businessmen. I mean these folks would rather be at home in their living rooms. So, you will be helping them to pretend that that's where they are.

Bill Pullman - Julian
William Hurt - Macon

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: I never heard of a crocodile crossing an ocean.
- Hector Cyr: Well, they conceal information like that in books.”
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr

“A book. You know, those things you read? Sometimes you learn from them? A book?”

E.J. Curse - Jessie

“The last thing to determine conclusively is whether you're in a comedy or a tragedy. Tragedy, you die. Comedy, you get hitched.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“- Jill: You don't respect books.
- Michael Delany: I love books.
- Jill: You break their bindings, and you doodle in their margins.”
Heather Stephens - Jill
Jerry O'Connell - Michael Delany

“- Milton Fishman: Well guys, we gotta start a fire. Better start looking for pinecones.
- Max Grabelski: Pinecones?
- Milton Fishman: It says in the manual, whenever your camp is surrounded by green wood, always use pinecones to start your fire.
- Max Grabelski: If the manual told you to stick your wiener in a light-socket, would you do it?”
Ari Greenberg - Milton Fishman
Daniel Stern - Max Grabelski

“I have all those books to write, whatever they are. Fiction, I hope!”
Malcom McDowell - H.G. Wells

“- Yentl: I'd like this one, please.
- Bookseller: Sacred books are for men.
- Yentl: Why?
- Bookseller: It's the law.
- Yentl: Where's it written?
- Bookseller: It doesn't matter where it's written, it's the law.
- Yentl: Well if it's the law it must be written somewhere, perhaps in here. I'll take it.”

Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Jack Lynn - Bookseller

“- Mrs. Allyson: Slaughterhouse-Five, isn't that an awful name?
- Ren: Yeah it's a great book... Slaughterhouse-Five, it's a classic.
- Mr. Gurntz: Do you read much?
- Mrs. Allyson: Maybe in another town, it's a classic.
- Ren: In any town.
- Mr. Gurntz: Tom Sawyer is a classic!”
Mary Ethel Gregory - Mrs. Allyson
Kevin Bacon - Ren
Sam Dalton - Mr. Gurntz

“- Maya: What's the title?
- Miles: The Day After Yesterday.
- Maya: Oh... You mean today?”
Virginia Madsen - Maya
Paul Giamatti - Miles

“If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.”
Kate Winslet - Madeleine