Bodleianshop Quotes & Sayings

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like. — Haruki Murakami

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it ... yes, books are like flypaper - memories cling to the printed page better than anything else. — Cornelia Funke

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. — Ken Follett

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value ... — Ananda Coomaraswamy

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time. — Carol Orsborn