Sentences with phrase «dusty old book»

I've been afraid, I guess, that if I pick at it too much I'll be left with nothing but a dusty old book of history and mortally devised collection of writings.

No one has to like a damn thing I posted, but I REFUSE to let some dusty old book tell me how to live MY life.

I'll take my personal relationship with God over some be-suited hilligan screeching fables at me out of some dusty old book any day.

The bible is a dusty old book that has nothing to do with 2011 and Jesus, if he ever existed, is long dead.

There's a lot more mathematical evidence for the scientific origin of the universe than one dusty old book, let's just put it that way.

Still knee - deep in dusty old books that I am weeding from the shelves, so jeans might be more practical for the work I am doing.

His lover of centuries, Eve (Swinton), lives in Tangier, stuffing her nose in piles of dusty old books in every language and meeting with her old friend Marlowe (John Hurt) at a late - night cafe.

High time people hit the library, and revisit some of those dusty old books — take your pick: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Paine, de Tocqueville, Mill, Thoreau and a host of others.

Not exact matches

And if you have an old dusty book filled with absurd stories, then your religion must be true

My old dusty book says that if I don't sacrifice kittens to the moon, I will spend the rest of eternity tormenting in the lake of kitty litter, wailing and gnashing my teeth and meowing for meow mix.

And, this man is clearly letting some dusty out dated old book dictate how he views the world.

Not everyone shares my passion for dusty old name books, so this list is for you folks.

I want to look professional but also need to wear practical clothing that lends itself to handling dusty, old books.

Hugh Grant's master of disguise goes by the name of Phoenix Buchanan, a nogoodnik who sets his sights upon a dusty old pop - up book in Mr. Gruber's (Jim Broadbent) emporium of oddities — the same one Paddington wants to purchase for Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday.

To do so, the pompous Phoenix Buchanan — played to the hilt by Hugh Grant, fresh from having his own career re-energised by Florence Foster Jenkins — needs a hidden fortune that can only be located with the help of a dusty old pop - up book from Mr Gruber's antique shop.

10:43 AM ON FEB 9 2009: matt: The kid apparently still visits the local bookstore before turning to the amazon kindle, made by amazon, where he can download books from amazon, because the feels sorry for the dusty old bokstore.

I've got an iPad full of a gazillion - affordably - priced - ebooks I purchased and haven't read yet; a house full of hundreds of print books I've yet to read; an ongoing addiction to big, old, dusty secondhand bookstores; and I belong to two big local library system with excellent print and ebook selections / services.

My dusty old school history books were enough to turn off all but the most inspired historian, and especially unappealing to girls with their emphasis on battles.

None of the books in my father's dusty old bookcase were forbidden.

Carolyn sometimes thought of how the hot ammonia of Margaret's urine blended with the dusty smell of old books, how her screams echoed down the stacks.

The wonderful part is the great authors who can now see their books come alive when they would have died a dusty death on a closet shelf in the old days.

Recycle an Old Bookcase Books can get dusty and heavy if they're not frequently picked up.