Bibliophiles And Bibliothieves Quotes & Sayings

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking. — Damon Lindelof

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton

Life can only be as new as you Choose to be. — Guy Finley

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age. — Robert Jordan

The end of art is peace. — Seamus Heaney

H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do. — Lucas Remmerswaal

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy. — Ann Brashares

I have done a certain amount of service for this college, most of it quite undistinguished, in a misspent lifetime. But the one service I will not do for this college is expose myself to the conversation of M H L Gay. It was jejune at the best of times. And now that what by courtesy one refers to as his mind appears to have given up the very unequal struggle, I find it bizarre but not rewarding. — C.P. Snow

As she closed the gate behind her she noticed her own name on one of the big envelopes. Turning it over, she saw written on the back: Course in Philosophy. Handle with care. — Jostein Gaarder

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started. — Christopher Reeve

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte

So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail. — William Shakespeare

I don't drink to get drunk. That's just not cute. — Taylor Swift

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"
because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk — E. Lockhart