Bartlebys Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

One has to practice wisdom through living in the present. — Nirmala Srivastava

Mama's gaze pierced her. As a girl, Minerva had envied her mother's blue eyes. They'd seemed the color of tropical oceans and cloudless skies. But their color had faded over the years since Papa's death. Now their blue was the hue of dyed cambric worn three seasons. Or brittle middle-class china. The color of patience nearly worn through. — Tessa Dare

The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever."85 Einstein — Walter Isaacson

Tact is good taste in action. — Diane De Poitiers

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest. — Henry Paulson

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. — Bert Sugar

As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?" — DJ Shadow

How awful for you! By the looks of it, you've developed a soul. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt. — G.A. Henty

Never experienced anything like the prickling sensation before. From then on, my life was never the same. The prickle would show up and bam, I — Jessica Sorensen