Correderas Bloom Quotes & Sayings

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself
and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. — Henry David Thoreau

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. — C. Northcote Parkinson

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small. — Maureen Corrigan

I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more
get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet. — Samuel R. Delany

We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists - find for them means to make their financial ways easier, that they may develop and fruit their fullest - but let us not ask them to please us in doing it. — Robert Henri

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals. — Nicholas A. Christakis

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older. — Hugh Masekela

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice- — Michael Palmer