136 Movie Quotes about Books (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

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Memorable quotes about books, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

61 Every day I see you reading. What's with this reading? Some guy makes up some story... _ 'em! It's a waste of time.

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

62 You _in' people baffle me. You spend all your money on these _in' fancy books. You surround yourselves with 'em. They're the wrong _in' books.

Matt Damon as Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting

63 What are the right _in' books? -Hey, whatever blows your hair back. -Yeah. Haven't got much hair left.

Matt Damon as Will Hunting; Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

64 Well, well, well. Quite the scholar, I see. Look at his books, Giddy. A man of letters.

Walter Catlett as Honest John in Pinocchio (1939)

65 I'm not afraid. My mind will protect me. I'm a man of science, a man of learning, a man who knows how to buy the finest books.

Matthew Perry as Leslie Edwards in Almost Heroes (1998)

66 Well, are you sure you're doing the right thing? You know what happens to girls like you when they read books like mine. They begin to think. That's bad.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

67 In the 25-cent book business, you can sell anything, even the old classics, no matter how dreary they are.

Marilyn Monroe as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

68 And it wasn't that she was just selling books. It was that she was helping people become whoever it was they were going to turn out to be.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

69 What's wrong about a book? -I'll not be remembered for a pack of lies.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

70 He'd been teaching the same rubbish for 30 years and I don't suppose he'd read a new book for 20 of those.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein