Wlodkowski Books Quotes & Sayings

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. — Michael Caine

I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at. — Fredrik Backman

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal. — Violette Leduc

It's hard for me to care about anyone enough to put myself in the unsettling position of growth. In — Nina G. Jones

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night. — Yanni

I glare at him and sigh. "Don't you understand what a book is?"
"Obviously."
"Then how can it be boring? It's not just twenty-six little letters all mushed together to make words that link together to tell a story. It's the creation of another world where anything can happen and anyone can be whoever they want to be. It's a crazy, special kind of magic that can transport you out of the real world, to anywhere you want to go. It doesn't matter if it's a made-up universe or it's written in a city you can drive to within an hour. It's what happens within the pages that makes reading so...not boring."

-Emma Hart "Dirty Little Rendezvous (The Burke Brothers Spin-Off #1). — Emma Hart

Licited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any — Sun Tzu

From seaport to seaport, papers accumulate on the captain's desk. "Paperwork has become the bane of this job," he says. "If a ship doesn't have a good copying machine, it isn't seaworthy. The more ports, the more papers. South American paperwork is worse than the paperwork anywhere else in the world but the Arab countries and Indonesia." Deliberately, he allows the pile on his desk to rise until a deep roll on a Pacific swell throws it to the deck and scatters it from bulkhead to bulkhead. This he interprets as a signal that the time has come to do paperwork. The paper carpet may be an inch deep, but he leaves it where it fell. Bending over, he picks up one sheet. He deals with it: makes an entry, writes a letter - does whatever it requires him to do. Then he bends over and picks up another sheet. This goes on for a few days until, literally, he has cleared his deck. The — John McPhee

The ecstasy of love is a paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back ... We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements — Richard G. Scott

Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore — Mary Karr

Budget the luxuries first. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls. — Kathleen Hanna