Book Hoarder Quotes & Sayings

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past — Dmitri Volkogonov

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. — Yuan T. Lee

Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn. — Bob Hope

I kept wanting to sit and rest, to curl up in a ball and think of nothing else. No, no, no. The light. I had to go toward the light. That almost made me laugh out loud. It was funny, really. Like I was someone having a near-death experience. Then I did laugh. This whole night had been full of near-death experiences. — Richelle Mead

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it. — Ivy Baker Priest

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person. — Seneca The Younger

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. — Anne Carson

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities. — Francesca Annis

We're all afraid, but that didn't stop us. — Lemony Snicket

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. — J. Courtney Sullivan

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. — Norton Juster

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president. — Thomas Mallon

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. — Alfred North Whitehead

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering. — George Eliot