Black Books Quotes:

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

- Dylan Moran

topic: Book, Thinking, Black, Black Books

Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

- Bill Bailey

topic: Orange, Laughing, Lavender, Black Books

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

- Dylan Moran

source: "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000–2004.

topic: Funny, Humor, Beard, Black Books

You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven.

- Dylan Moran

source: "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000–2004.

topic: Morning, Coffee, Thinking, Look At Yourself, Black Books

I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.

- Dylan Moran

source: "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000-2004.

topic: Long, Lines, Quitter, Long Lines, Black Books

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Birthday, Fun, Book, Aging And Wisdom, Black Books

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

- Dylan Moran

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Book, Humor, Grumpy, Black Books

Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .

- R. S. Thomas

source: R. S. Thomas, “A Welsh Testament”

topic: Wall, Book, Names, Black Books

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

- Joanne Harris

topic: Girl, Book, Reading, Black Books

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

- Jim Broadbent

topic: Book, Opportunity, Black, Black Books, Missed Opportunity

Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!

- Susan Cohn Rockefeller

topic: Girl, Book, Careers, Career Success, Every Girl

I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

- Junot Diaz

source: "Junot Diaz Interview: Prize-Winning Author Talks High School, Being A Nerd". Interview with Marisa Spiegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

topic: Book, School, Black, Malcolm X Autobiography, Black Books

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

- Michael Silverblatt

topic: Book, Reading, Design, Thoroughness, Black Books

Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.

- Simon Cowell

topic: Book, Phones, People, Mobile Phones, Black Books