Booksnpics Quotes & Sayings

Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world. — H.G.Wells

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi

Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear. — Umberto Eco

In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not work without gravity feed. Scientists undertook extensive research, finally developed high-technology pen to work in conditions of no gravity. In Russia, scientist faced with the same problem found a different solution. Instead of pen, they used pencil. — Marina Lewycka

Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new ... um ... what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?"
"Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club.
"Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found."
"Hooray! — Rick Riordan

If a person reads a good book - they become permanently changed. They can't even help it. They can't unlearn what they've learned. It will always be with them. — Loretta Lost

The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream. — Robin Sharma

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. — Susan Cain

No such thing as destiny. But Fluff had come after me, not her
and it had brought the two of them together anyway. It was impossible to write it off as a series of accidents. Both ideas impossible to believe and impossible to dismiss. Which is what he's told me Christ knows how many times before, about the signs, the connections, the correspondence between things, the goddamned beguilement. You have to both believe it and know it can't be true, he'd said. You have to learn how to be the wry servant of two masters. I'd been so annoyed, I'd said: Yeah. I've never know what the fuck 'wry' actually means. — Glen Duncan

I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits. — Billy Collins

Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her — Louisa May Alcott

What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid? — Jenn Cooksey

He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library. — Gene Wolfe

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. — Josef Albers