Nottooshabbyshelves Quotes & Sayings

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president, — John Boehner

In the '80s, everything became too serious. — Elsa Peretti

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. — Saul Bellow

As I listened I felt a dull numbness, like the effect of chloroform, rather than the primal, anarchic agony you usually feel when you encounter someone you have loved now turned to dust, in some object like a little bowl, and you are required to believe that it is still the same person who once smiled at you. — Magda Szabo

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way. — J.I. Packer

You must tell me about it when you do,' she said. 'When you make love for the first time, I mean. I want to know what you think.'
He glanced away from her, out of the window. An ice-cream parlour, a man with a dog, a tree. How was he going to get out of shopping next week?
'It's so wonderful, it's like,' and she left her mouth open while she thought, and then it came to her, and she smiled, 'it's like colours everywhere. — Rupert Thomson

Dream until your dreams come true. — Aerosmith

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast. — William McKeen

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. — Noah Baumbach

You must know that I am entirely yours to command."
"I see chivalry lives on," she said.
"As long as there's no jousting involved, I'm your knight," he said. — Helen Simonson

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now. — Paul Graham

That was the problem with caring. It left you vulnerable, open on one side to the most hideous pain imaginable, and the only antidote was to stop giving a shit, but how did you do that? How did you turn it all off? — Andrea Speed

It's amazing how much of that music I still listen to actually. I was such a fan of music, even after I got started professionally I remained a fan. But what happens when you're so involved is you start spending all your time based on the music that you're involved with, you just don't have as much time. — Bernie Finkelstein

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered — Thomas Hughes