Leatherbound Quotes & Sayings

Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman's home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end up with this sort of dealer sooner or later. I look through a set of Cooper and, without surprise, find uncut pages: these books were never actually read. — Paul Collins

Andy gave me a leatherbound Bible (which I also read, mostly to spite him) — Stephen King

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state. — George Meade

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that. — Lara Flynn Boyle

Mmm ... she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me. — Christopher Paolini

I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble
we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!
... Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Patriotism is a joke in the UK. — Matt Tong

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing. — Lindsay Wagner

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this. — Seth Godin

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. On that day of the week and at — Leo Tolstoy

It is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura