Fi > Fi's Quotes

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
― Ray Bradbury

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Libraries are our friends.”
― Neil Gaiman

“His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer