Bookish Quotes

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome. - Burt Lancaster

I was this weird little bookish giant. - Aisha Tyler

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! - Natalie Merchant

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side. - Piper Perabo

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. - Ray Bradbury

Have you ever noticed the way you always fall in love with the wrong people. When your chatting with friends and they ask you what your dream guy is like and you reply that he is a little bookish, romantic, he bits you flowers and writes you poems, he's good-looking but not in an obvious way, he talks with you and isn't interested in only one thing, he doesn't look at other girls, he calls each night and you can talk for hours, he likes the same music, food and books. He is perfect. And all your friends are nodding, buyout of the corner of your eye the boy. He is a player, he is smokin hot, he doesn't read, doesn't write poems, can't talk for hours, doesn't believe in flowers, hates your music and is allergic to your favorite foods. And you hate how hopelessly in love you are with him. - Unknown

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. - John Donne

[A bookish child, she used to read at the dinner table, something that was not discouraged. She was a good student, got into Stanford University, where she met Joseph Brodsky.] He did the best thing a poet could ever do... He gave me a reading list. - Nicole Krauss