Gilbert Highet

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.”

Demetri Martin

“I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.”

Peter McWilliams

“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”

Marlene Dietrich

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

Marilyn Monroe

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

Thomas Hardy

“A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.”

WB Yeats

“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”

Thomas Jefferson

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Victor Hugo

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

Jack Kerouac

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”