Blissfully Bookish Tees Quotes & Sayings

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. — Albert Camus

All around me, the night lived its secret life. — Mary Downing Hahn

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything. — Jonathan Kozol

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. — Hafez

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four. — Miles Davis

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

God is near you, is with you, is inside you. — Seneca The Younger

them. In earlier years, I liked my father in some ways. He was social, chatty, witty; people enjoyed being with him and he paid special attention to me. He indulged me. He sometimes gave me rarities I longed for, or some version of them, like a garter snake, instead of a poisonous one. In later years, he seemed to be as aware of me as the stray cat that wandered in one day and never left. Mother had two moods. She was either temperamental, meaning short-tempered and unhappy, or she was melancholy, meaning listless and unhappy. — Amy Tan

As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of hue, and bedizened with such late flowers as were still with us. I leaned forward to commend, and saw that each face was brown and wizened and thin-haired: so that their motions and their wedding paean felt goblin and discomforting; nor could I smile till they departed by the further door.
("The Basilisk") — R. Murray Gilchrist

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. — Henry Moore

You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them. — Kip Moore

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war. — Barkhad Abdi

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. — Leon Krier

I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their own, nicely accompanied in their singularity by the companion of possibility. For cannot any man, young or old, rich or poor, turn a few corners and bump into marriage? — Elizabeth Hardwick

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see. — Chelsea Clinton