Thereand Quotes & Sayings

Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do a piece on something in Nevada, and you go down to C Floor, deep in the earth, and out to what a miner would call a remote working face. You find 10995.497S just where the card catalog and the online computer thought it would be, but that is only the initial nick. The book you knew about has led you to others you did not know about. To the ceiling the shelves are loaded with books about Nevada. You pull them down, one at a time, and sit on the floor and look them over until you are sitting on a pile five feet high, at which point you are late home for dinner and you get up and walk away. It's an incomparable boon to research, all that; but it is also a reason why there are almost no large open-stack libraries left in the world. — John McPhee

When Elvis sang, it almost sounded like he was whispering. But after you heard the record, his voice was the strongest thing you ever heard. He was incredible. — Donald Dunn

Some of us are so terribly broken. — Vannary Rang

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things. — James Freeman Clarke

One of the novels that was hardest for me to write had to deal with the horrible slaughter of war. I almost didn't finish Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom for just that reason. — Katherine Paterson

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. — Isoroku Yamamoto

Perhaps he could see inside her, see what she was becoming even before she realized it herself. Saw her for what she is. A murderer. But each time remorse begins to invade her, break her will to hold herself together, the rage returns, almost as strong as the moment she opened the door to the prisoners' room. It overshadows the guilt. And the void grows. — Joe Hart

Had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome. — Mark Twain

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them. — Shirley Jackson

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs. — Dave Mustaine

You know what I realized?" "What?" "Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens — Lawrence Block

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C.S. Lewis

Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it. — Hoyt Axton