Library Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great - really good fun. — Rose George

Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands. — George Herbert

Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism. — Terry Pratchett

Here she was at eight, with the chemistry set she'd begged for at Christmas. Her father was beside her in this one, showing her a picture of the periodic table, explaining how everything on earth, everything in the universe, even - people, starfish, cement, bicycles, and far-off planets - was made up of a combination of these elements. "Isn't it amazing to think of, Ruthie?" he'd asked. Ruthie had found the idea that we were only a series of neatly constructed puzzle pieces or building blocks vaguely unsettling - even at eight, she wanted there to be more to it than that. — Jennifer McMahon

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. — Richard Matheson

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own. — Barbara Kingsolver

It feels incredible to be outside when I'm supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating.
- Sara — Susane Colasanti

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything. — Eminem

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college. — Billy Eichner

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed ... Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it. — Max Blumenthal

...words don't make what I make with him... — Kate Walsh

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see. — Catherynne M Valente

The dollars aren't so important ... once you have them. — Johnny Miller