Compendium Books Quotes & Sayings

Don't try to be original; just try to be good. — Paul Rand

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though. — Suzanne Collins

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.' — Christopher Lee

He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart. — Anne Tyler

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. — Claude Shannon

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. — Margaret Mead

Style is based on limitations. — John Hartford

More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin. — Jay Leno

The real battle for Christians today is not Armageddon, it is the battle for a sensible approach to that ancient library of books we call the Bible. The Bible was written by human beings, with all the longings, prejudices and illusions that characterise us as a species. It is not an apocalyptic almanac, a mystical code book, an inerrant textbook for living. It is a compendium of a particular people's struggle with meaning; so it should encourage us to do the same in our day. — Richard Holloway

I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too. — Shawn Mendes

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit. — Ambrose Bierce

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children. — Warren Farrell

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death. — Franz Kafka

Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn't a book but its subversion and negation: the ingredients for a book whose recipe is to keep sifting, the mutant germ of a book and its weirdly lush ramifications, the rooms and windows to build a book but no floor plan and no floor, a compendium of many potential books and many others already in ruins. What we have in these pages is an anti-literature, a kind of primitive, verbal CAT scan of one man's anguished soul. — Fernando Pessoa

Sleep doesn't come to people who have a heavy apology resting on their heart. Sleep knows better. — Katie Kacvinsky

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul. — Craig D. Lounsbrough