Lisiewska Joanna Quotes & Sayings

Time in a bookstore is a selection process. You touch the spines, one by one, until your finger lands on the desired work. Marinovich calls this accidental research, because, at times, your finger slips and you land on the wrong book. That wrong book can ultimately be the most important book in your life -- as if, for once, it was the book that chose you. — Saskia De Rothschild

Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real. — Kathy Bryson

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred. — Margaret Visser

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. — James Nathan Miller

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere. — Theodore Roosevelt

Everything is copy. — Nora Ephron

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak. — Henry Ward Beecher