Dirbam Quotes & Sayings

Books are sepulchres of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But most of all books (I say again and again) are like the Thirty-Mile Woman from Toni Morrison's Beloved: 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.' ~ Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. — Leah Price

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter ... — Alexander Hamilton

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. — Eric Liu

Don't pigeonhole me, Georgie. I'm infinite. — Rainbow Rowell

Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked. — Ron Brackin

Before you request my help, check underneath your couch cushion. Then call me. — The Searcher

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda. — Dat Phan

The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him. — Ted Chiang

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity. — Karel Capek

Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then. — David Letterman

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief. — Emily Croy Barker

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal. — Andre Previn