Quotes - James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell:

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Quotes - Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett:

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Idiom - In someone's bad books

In someone's bad books:

If you're in someone's bad books, they are not pleased with you.

I think I'm in Jenny's bad books. I forgot her birthday, and now she's not answering my calls.

Make sure you don't get in the boss's bad books. If you do, he'll make life hell for you.

Vocabulary - Book hangover

Book hangover:

When you've finished a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you're still living in the world of the book.

I have a really bad book hangover today, I could hardly concentrate at work.

Proverb - You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover

You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover:

Decisions shouldn't be made primarily on appearance.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

oscar wilde:

in old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Quotes - Laura Miller

Laura Miller:

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Quotes - Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton:

It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Idiom - Throw the Book at Sb

Throw the Book at Sb:

To charge sb with, or convict sb of, as many crimes as possible.

The judge threatened to throw the book at me if I didn't stop insulting the police officer.

Persian: متهم کردن

Idiom - A Turn up for the Books

A Turn up for the Books:

An unexpected piece of good fortune.

Persian: اتفاق غیر منتظره، واقعه عجیب

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