Book Markers Quotes & Sayings

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail. — Teju Cole

The seeker of truth is a mirror for their neighbors. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. — Paul Delvaux

In my book [Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years. — Judy Woodruff

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect. — Mariano Rivera

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.' — David S.Goyer

Why are you walking alone
when love is walking along? — Debasish Mridha

Emotions are the keys to learning, the keys to imprinting. The stronger the emotion, the more clearly the experience is learned. — Clotaire Rapaille

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. — Thomas Sowell

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less. — Nancy Spain

She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable. — Neal Stephenson

The interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious is the power of books in our lives that every loss is a serious loss, every hole in the shelf a crater. Our books are ourselves, our characters, our insulation against those very people who would take away our books. someone should invent markers for bookcases to note 'missing persons.'
~Roger Rosenblatt, Writer — Estelle Ellis

War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts. — Emlyn Chand

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience. — Scotty Cameron

Now that I had experienced real freedom, I'm not sure I would ever get used to walls again. Walls loomed, leaned in, and whispered nasty things in your ears. They imposed and imprisoned. I hated them. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

It wasn't in church but in moments like this when I maybe believed in God or something like that. Some order to the chaos, some meaning. That we collide with the people we need, that we meet the ones who will love us, that there's some underlying reason to everything. — Megan Miranda

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around. — John Green