Bouquiniste Quotes & Sayings

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement. — David Ogilvy

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings, — Carlos Boozer

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic. — Laurell K. Hamilton

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. — David Lynch

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. — Charles Churchill

And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt. And great mugs of frothy chocolate, and roast potatoes and roast chestnuts, and baked apples with raisins stuck in where the cores had been, and then ices just to freshen you up after all the hot things. — C.S. Lewis

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. — Umberto Eco

[On sister Kim's pregnancy] The new year, we've got another child coming, so that's great. Kim's never had a baby, so it's going to be a beautiful blessing. — Rob Kardashian

At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears. — C. G. Jung

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. — Bertrand Russell