Bookworms Quotes

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world. ~ Heather Wilson

She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. ~ Victoria Connelly

No one lives in the library.'
'What about the bookworms?'
Michael thinks for a moment and shakes his head again. ~ Wai Chim

Books open new worlds to me. ~ Aya Ling

Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me. ~ Jonathan Hull

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. ~ Tara Bray Smith

I'm back at Lafayette Park after a trip to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, not to look at the books but to rub up against the female bookworms and to catch a buzz on the free herbal tea. ~ Donald O'Donovan

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know. ~ Laura Bush

People who love reading are often called bookworms - but that's the wrong way around. It's not you that worms into a book; it's books that worm into you." - Amanda Craig ~ Amanda Craig

only bookworms get excited over other bookworms ~ Firoozeh Dumas

Reading's my reward at the end of the day ~ Cheryl Strayed

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company. ~ Cornelia Funke

The gadget had come with The New Oxford American Dictionary preloaded. You only had to begin typing your word and the Kindle found it for you. It was, he thought, TiVo for bookworms. ~ Stephen King

We are next informed that bookworms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge, may not be good at bodily exercises, or have the habits of gentlemen. This is a very common line of remark with dunces of condition; but whatever the dunces may think, they have no monopoly of either gentlemanly habits or bodily activity. ~ John Stuart Mill

Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds. ~ Munia Khan

Old bookworms never die, they just go to be with their favorite fictional characters. ~ Random

Bookworms do that a lot, fall for the hero in their latest read and get terribly down about the fact they're fictional. ~ Rebecca Raisin

Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous ~ Bette A. Stevens

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm. ~ Louisa May Alcott

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin. ~ J. Patrick Lewis

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails ... and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.
- Anonymous Curse on Book Theives from the Monaster of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain ~ Anatole Broyard

I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't! ~ Fanny Fern

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading. ~ Virginia Woolf

I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. And to the tribe of basketball players. And to the tribe of bookworms. And the tribe of cartoonists. And the tribe of chronic masturbators. And the tribe of teenage boys. And the tribe of small-town kids. And the tribe of Pacific Northwesterners. And the tribe of tortilla chips-and-salsa lovers. And the tribe of poverty. And the tribe of funeral-goers. And the tribe of beloved sons. And the tribe of boys who really missed their best friends. It was a huge realization. And that's when I knew that I was going to be okay. (217) ~ Sherman Alexie

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm. ~ Idris Elba