Monocular Quotes & Sayings

It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again. — Tim Waterstone

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time — A.R. Ammons

I never knew her more than slightly and she was a woman who kept herself to herself. — W. Somerset Maugham

The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer. — Charles Dickens

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others — Jocelyn Murray

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun

What I like best about music is when time goes away. — Bob Weir

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular. — John Green

Yellowstone Park does not belong to Wyoming. It belongs to all of us. — Wayne Owens

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

I'm not one of your mustangs. I don't need saving."
"Don't you?" she asked softly. "It's not a weakness or a character flaw. It's human nature to need someone. We all do. You need this, Keith. These horses need you. And I need you. — Victoria Vane