Trouble In Bookland Quotes & Sayings

Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

suppose there was some medical procedure that will provide some modest health benefit but is extremely painful. However, the procedure is administered with a drug that does not prevent the pain but instead erases all memory of the event. Would you be willing to undertake this procedure? — Richard H. Thaler

We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales ... Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries. — Eric Schmidt

I brought him down one evening and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards. In two hours, I called Joseph to carry him up again; and, since then, my presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often, though I am not near. — Emily Bronte

Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.") — Stephen E. Ambrose

VLADIMIR: Well? What do we do?
ESTRAGON: Don't let's do anything. It's safer. — Samuel Beckett

Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams - but it never builds. — William Manchester

The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities. — Leila Janah

Do not desire to be recognized, but always desire to do your best to help humanity. — Debasish Mridha

The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become — John Medina

Where's my white out?"
"Chapter ten is missing!"
"Has anyone seen my socks?"
Linda spun around.
Mistress Yvonne gripped her shoulders. "This is a regular occurrence. No need to get involved."
Faint shouts echoed down the hall. "Leprechauns! — Marlene Simonette

You're a fangirl; you'd sneak off to meet your favorite Characters if it meant having to wade through a crowd of zombies. — Marlene Simonette

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change? — Bo Burnham

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls. — William Lyon Phelps

The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market. — Anil Agarwal

And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. — Dante Alighieri