“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.”
Entries categorized as ‘quotes’
Demetri Martin
May 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“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
April 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”
WB Yeats
December 17, 2008 · 1 Comment
“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
December 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Victor Hugo
November 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“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
September 7, 2008 · 1 Comment
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