Clothbound Book Quotes & Sayings

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. — Stanislaw Lem

I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space. — Guy De Maupassant

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. — Tyra Banks

Always questioning what the mirror shows us (for there is no duality of you/me in higher consciousness). — Jay Woodman

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. — Louise Erdrich

When you search for the truth, you begin to believe in the search and lose sight of the truth. — Chloe Thurlow

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards ... There's going to be a retard summit at the White House. — Rush Limbaugh

Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional. — Maddy Malhotra

I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work. — Steve Burns

Which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without any previous memories. — Rainer Maria Rilke

People who accomplish big things did small things well. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. — Max Frisch

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made. — Rafael Nadal

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — John Milton

I am your little ram,
burying his muzzle in thick grass of your pasture,

folded by you at night, herded by day,
a dedicated dog nipping at my hocks.

The day will come for you to draw
the bright sickle of the moon

across my wooly throat.
Do it with love, without regret. — Mark Wunderlich

I think I might have something for you today, he says, reaches beneath the counter, and his hand comes back with a book, clothbound cover the color of antique ivory, title and author stamped in faded gold and art deco letters. Best Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood, and she lifts it carefully off the countertop, picks it up the way someone else might lift a diamond necklace or a sick kitten, and opens the book to the frontispiece and title page, black-and-white photo of the author in a dapper suit, sadkind eyes and his bow tie just a little crooked. — Caitlin R. Kiernan