Morley Library Quotes & Sayings

I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?" — Ian Astbury

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it. — Christopher Morley

Life, relationships and success is not for compromise. — Dee Dee Artner

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. — Jodi Picoult

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade. What rot! Surely everything that arouses people's minds, that makes them alert and questing, increases their appetite for books. - Roger Mifflin — Christopher Morley

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water — Gwendolyn Brooks

Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up ... — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All souls are sacred with a spirit and a body. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. — Tom Allen

Our plan is one, one and again one alone - to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside. — Roland Huntford

There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did. — Ann Brashares

You can always change you plan, but only if you have one. — Randy Pausch

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three. — Sam Altman

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them. — Christopher Morley

Life is an enduring endeavour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to understand, and help him, dear. Not repair him. — Jennifer Ashley

Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs. — Pearl S. Buck