Skyscraping Book Quotes & Sayings

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. — W. H. Auden

Your company ... will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk ... You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the ... proper standard ... I would think that you would not sleep at night ... I do not think this country will not stand for it. — Gaylord Nelson

When I was your age, television was called books. — William Goldman

The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties. — Donald Miller

Later, someone explained that in Moldova the relationship between host and guest is reversed. It is the guest's obligation to make the host feel at ease. Reverse hospitality. One of the many peculiar customs in this country. — Eric Weiner

Problem with attempting to live up to other people's expectations was that you were destined to fail before you even began. I — Denise Grover Swank

Their numbers swell like viruses until they madden someone with a large army. — Kevin Hearne

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister