„Things in books' clothing.“

„I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do -- like perfumes, lines of clothing and this that and the other. But this [children's book] is right up my alley.“

—  Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

Reuters News Agency (October 10, 2005)
2007, 2008

„To think of a thing they must be got rid of: they are the clothes that thoughts wear—only the clothes. I say this over and over again, for there is nothing of more importance.“

—  Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902

Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 5 (1877)
Contexto: "Words, words, words," he writes, "are the stumbling-blocks in the way of truth. Until you think of things as they are, and not of the words that misrepresent them, you cannot think rightly. Words produce the appearance of hard and fast lines where there are none. Words divide; thus we call this a man, that an ape, that a monkey, while they are all only differentiations of the same thing. To think of a thing they must be got rid of: they are the clothes that thoughts wear—only the clothes. I say this over and over again, for there is nothing of more importance. Other men's words will stop you at the beginning of an investigation. A man may play with words all his life, arranging them and rearranging them like dominoes. If I could think to you without words you would understand me better."

„Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.“

—  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862

„The days were long and lonely. The sudden and total deprivation of such basic human necessities as exercise and fresh air, association with other people, my own clothes and things like newspapers, radio, cigarettes books and a host of other things, made my life very hard.“

—  Bobby Sands Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1954 - 1981

On his experience in solitary confinement in prison, in An Phoblacht/Republican News (1978), under the pseudonym "Marcella."
Other writings

„She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.“

—  Thorne Smith an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction 1892 - 1934

„What an astonishing thing a book is.“

—  Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator 1934 - 1996

42 min 33 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Contexto: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

„There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.“

—  Oscar Wilde, libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Variante: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

„Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.“

—  Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915

p. 160.

„The great mass of people are interested in only three things—food, clothing, and shelter. A politician in a district like mine sees to it that his people get these things.“

—  Martin Lomasney American politician 1859 - 1933

[O'Connor, Thomas H., The Boston Irish: A Political History, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1995, 9781555532208, 122, https://books.google.com/?id=ld8YAQAAMAAJ]

„His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay

„I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff“

—  Katie Melua British singer-songwriter 1984

Contexto: I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff... Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].

„It’s a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you’re a sucker for it: Isn’t story-telling what being human is all about?“

—  Charles Stross, libro Halting State

Fuente: Halting State (2007), Chapter 13, “Jack: In Hell” (p. 96)

„Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.“

—  Julian Barnes, libro Flaubert's Parrot

Fuente: Flaubert's Parrot

„It is my belief that books are living things…. And as living things, they need to be protected.“

—  Holly Black American children's fiction writer 1971

„They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.“

—  Eddie Izzard British stand-up comedian, actor and writer 1962

„There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes“

—  Mindy Kaling, libro Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Fuente: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

„Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.“

—  Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892

Fuente: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.

„This book contains a story and several other things.“

—  Philip Pullman, libro Lyra's Oxford

Lyra's Oxford (2003)
Contexto: This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet. It's not easy to tell.

„We live, and move, and have our being in a consumer cosmos. The global economy and interconnection of markets and resources means every time we eat a meal, listen to music, put on clothing, or read a book, we are being consumers.“

—  Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)