Books quotes

“Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference.”
Kate Winslet - Madeleine

“- Daniel: One of the rooms they called it the library and they filled it full of books. Thousands of books on every subject and they're all second-hand. You know why?
- Martha: It was cheaper?
- Daniel: No. It's so it looks like they've been read.”
Tom Hollander - Daniel
Monica Potter - Martha

“- Rick O'Connell: The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?
- Evelyn Carnahan: It's just a book. No harm ever came from... reading a book.”
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan

“This object I'm holding here is called... well, some of you may have seen one before, it's called a book. You may have seen one on television.”
Denholm Elliott - Headmaster

“A book is a lovely thing, a garden stocked with beautiful flowers, a magic carpet on which to fly away to unknown climes.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Mr. Peters

“- Hermione Granger: I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.
- Ron Weasley: This is light?”

Emma Watson - Hermione Granger
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley

“- Pastor: Can I ask what your interest is in finding such a book?
- Giles Redferne: Our interest lies in stopping those who would see all good falter. It lies in stopping the powers of misrule from coming of age. It lies in finding that damned book, and thwarting a vile beast of a man who shall not rest until God himself is thrown down, and all...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Carpenter - Pastor
Richard R. Grant - Giles Redferne

“The spell book. All witches keep grimoires, yet one is indestructible, one is the bible of black magic - the Grand Grimoire. Always witches have lusted for it, and now, here, I find a page - one lone page!”
Richard R. Grant - Giles Redferne

“- Erik: I read both of your books. I liked the first one more. Before you were on the island. You liked dinosaurs back then.
- Dr. Grant: Back then they hadn't tried to eat me yet.”
Trevor Morgan - Eric Kirby
Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant

“- Kate Rambeau: Look at your math book; it looks brand new. Bet you've never even opened it.
- Riff Randell: I only use it on special equations.”
Dey Young - Kate Rambeau
P.J. Soles - Riff Randell

“It's been a long time since someone wrote a really good book in jail.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: "live people ignore the strange and unusual". I myself am strange and unusual.
Winona Ryder - Lydia

“Medical books aren't written about losers!”
Laurence Fishburne - Thrax

“Free papers.
[laughs loudly and irritatingly and rolls a joint with the page]”

Marlon Wayans - Shorty

They're talking about banning books again! Really subversive books, like "The Wizard of Oz"... "The Diary of Anne Frank".
Amy Madigan - Annie Kinsella

“- Frankie Delano: You ever read this book?
- Bruno: Have I ever read that book? Not only does that insult my intelligence but it insults my ignorance. Why would a man like me, who happens to like himself, be caught dead reading a bit of boy toy fluff like that?
- Frankie Delano: Because it's a killer.”
Sylvester Stallone - Frankie Delano
Billy Gardell - Bruno

“- Hank Grotowski: Let's get this over quick.
- Minister: Is there a passage you'd like me to read?
- Hank Grotowski: No, all I wanna hear is dirt hit that box.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Hank Grotowski
John Wilmot - Minister

“- Jake Briggs: Kristy, is the baby warmer?
- Kristy Briggs: We're fine. Sweetie, don't burn your book. Maybe we can get some wood.
- Jake Briggs: Wood's expensive. Words are cheap.”

Kevin Bacon - Jake Briggs
Elizabeth McGovern - Kristy Briggs

“- The Grandfather: This is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I'm gonna read it to you.
- The Grandson: Has it got any sports in it?
- The Grandfather: Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Falk - The Grandfather
Fred Savage - The Grandson

“- Professor Banks: I understand you are allowed one phone call from jail?
- Mark Watson: Yes.
- Professor Banks: Next time you get arrested, use it to call me. I'll bring you your books. You can study in jail.”
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I've read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I've understood them. They're about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash's autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's learning things never taught me nothin'. And books is the worst.”
Madeline Kahn - Betty

“- Doug Kinney: I'm gonna buy you something.
- Doug Kinney: A chainsaw?
- Doug Kinney: Or a book.”
Michael Keaton - Doug Kinney
Michael Keaton - Doug Kinney

“- Natalia: Harry, who are you?
- Harry Oslo: Huh?
- Natalia: Woody is Condorman, I am Laser Lady! Who are you?
- Harry Oslo: How'd ya find out?
- Natalia: The children here read comic books, too.
- Harry Oslo: Let's take a walk.”

Barbara Carrera - Natalia
James Hampton - Harry Oslo

“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly