Endpapers Book Quotes & Sayings

Don't kiss me now - here comes somebody. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove my shoes and step into it up to my ankles, knees, hips, chest, until only my head is showing and the pages spread around me and the words bob up and down and bump into my neck, and the punctuation sticks to my chin and cheeks so I look like I need a shave. — Lou Beach

I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.' — Olivia De Havilland

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you. — Luc Besson

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore. — Charles Burnett

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes. — Epictetus

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are. — Les Brown

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience. — Jennifer Pharr Davis

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls. — Terence McKenna

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now. — Maeve Binchy

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins. — Cornelia Funke