Bibliotheca Quotes & Sayings

The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse. — Dave Barry

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different. — Cher

Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators. — Andrew Solomon

Atlas Ultra Ergonomic Book Holder, — Gregory Campion

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after. — Pete Seeger

He accepted his place among them, aware at last that mercy has no boundaries, that it encompassed even such as he, that this world was his work, too. He rose on into that morning, the chains of time falling from him as he ascended into the house of the just. . . . and all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well. — J.R. Dunn

We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like ... Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better? ... I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating. — Tamora Pierce

Humility makes me cry! There isn't a bigger asset than it. — Nikita Dudani

I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen — Dave Gorman

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood. — Sandra Scarr

A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist. — Arthur Koestler

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.' — Stan Musial

Don't you dare die. You have to live so I can curse you up and down for scaring me like this — Kady Cross

If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people. — Serena Williams