Booknesses Quotes & Sayings

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it. — Frank Perdue

Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot's hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say. — NoViolet Bulawayo

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage. — Al Pacino

The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom. — Jayne Castel

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. — Mignon McLaughlin

Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know. — Mark Rubinstein

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race. — Arthur Henderson

After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire. — Martin Amis