Rereads Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road. — Tim Gunn

When giant violent albino penguins are the least extraordinary issue of the day, then your day has slipped a gear. — Jonathan Maberry

I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an Arab American or a Palestinian or Muslim or a doctor with or without borders and there's really no meaningful entry into those hyphenations. — Fady Joudah

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist. — Saint Augustine

Sometimes, God doesn't send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it. — Shannon L. Alder

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented. — Jack Bruce

I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodos. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. [perpetual snow] that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt scenery - here however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalist's eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?
[Letter to Charles Darwin 24 Jun 1849] — Joseph Dalton Hooker

I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people. — Jennifer Silverwood

When searching for justice, what you sometimes find is just more trouble. — Maryann Austin