Pivottoday Quotes & Sayings

The perfect Librarian is calm, cool, collected, intelligent, multilingual, a crack shot, a martial artist, an Olympic-level runner (at both the sprint and marathon), a good swimmer, an expert thief, and a genius con artist. They can steal a dozen books from a top-security strongbox in the morning, discuss literature all afternoon, have dinner with the cream of society in the evening, and then stay up until midnight dancing, before stealing some more interesting tomes at three a.m. That's what a perfect Librarian would do. In practice, most Librarians would rather spend their time reading a good book. — Genevieve Cogman

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into making their book. Just the indie author's manuscript, own currency, and persistence. — Mary Sage Nguyen

The next morning, Mom set two plates of scrambled eggs in front of me and Georgia and then sat down to watch us eat. She loves to watch us eat, which I totally don't get. I mean, she works at a diner. She watches people eat all day long. — James Patterson

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him. — Pearl S. Buck

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership. — David McCullough

Truly wise men called on each element alike to minister to their joy, and while the touch of sun-bathed air, the fragrance of garden soil, the ductible qualities of mud, and the spark-whirling rapture of playing with fire, had each their special charm, they did not overlook the bliss of getting their feet wet. — Kenneth Grahame

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. — David Hyde Pierce

Like old time... wanna arm wrestle for her? — Catherine Vale

She's so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her. The — William Shakespeare

It wouldn't fade. It wouldn't shift to another. It probably wouldn't always be easy ... but it would always be ... always. — S.C. Stephens