#books

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#be nice #books #briefcase #computer #design

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#book #books #career #child #children

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#back #bookstores #come #fan #find

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#bit #bookstore #clubs #down #esoteric

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#books #cook #could #home #i

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#because #complicated #cookbooks #either #find

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

The wise man reads both books and life itself. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#both #itself #life #man #reads

Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written - Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered - Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First - Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered - Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback - Books You Can Borrow from Somebody - Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too - Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages - Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success - Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment - Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case - Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer - Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves - Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified - Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read - Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them ↗

— Italo Calvino

#humor #reading #age

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#escapist #i #romantic #teenager #total