Bookcase Quotes

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. (Anton Chekhov)
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were. View quote
Louise Penny
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me. View quote
David Lindsay-Abaire
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. View quote
Linda Grant
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him. View quote
Walter Mosley
She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future. View quote
Martin Amis
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The opera-glasses she stole from the bookcase so that each morning she could look through them down into the street in order to make people bigger and bring them close to her in order to feel less lonely. View quote
Stig Dagerman
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. View quote
Anatole Broyard
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
At home these men's works [ Kant, Schiller, Goethe] were kept in the bookcase with the green glass panes in Papa's study, and Törless knew this bookcase was never opened except to display its contents to a visitor. It was like the shrine of some divinity to which one does not readily draw nigh and which one venerates only because one is glad that thanks to its existence there are certain things one need no longer bother about. (Robert Musil)
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having. View quote
Samantha Bee
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried. View quote
Laura Wade
The young need discipline and a full bookcase. View quote
Vivienne Westwood