1344 Zanzibar Quotes

#1. What is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original thought is ore of the mind; language is but the stamp and coinage by which it is put into circulation.

Washington Irving

#2. On cheap tippers:"Don't take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children.
On low-fat entrees: "They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal.

Joan Bauer

#3. If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#4. When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

Rebecca McCann

#5. I fucking love you, you goddamned librarian.

Alice Clayton

#6. Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.

Iain Sinclair

#7. Just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation ... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.

Sam Abell

#8. Callie glances over her shoulder. She's younger than me, but aggressively put together, with curled hair and heavy lipstick.

Brenna Yovanoff

#9. Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Tom Robbins

#10. As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

Rihanna

#11. The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.

Ryan Phillippe

#12. We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Evelyn Boyd Granville

#13. I have been given a third chance at life, even if the circumstances are somewhat disconcerting. You are mine, and we both know it.

Chloe Neill

#14. Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

Arthur Judson

#15. The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje