Annotated Quotes

#1. Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#2. There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next,

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

Chris Riddell

#4. When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Thom Gunn

#5. In another large journal book, he wrote his notes out again, along with further notes on the notes, and then started to cross words out of the completed, annotated notes, carefully removing word after word until he had something that looked like a poem. This was how he imagined poetry to be made.

Iain M. Banks

#6. I mention the library only as a last resort. I recommend buying your own books... They can be spiced with underlines, question marks, and exclamation points; they can be thumbed and dog-eared, plucked to their essential core, and annotated so that they become a mirror of yourself.

Kato Lomb

#7. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#8. There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

Garry Trudeau

#9. Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.

Jay Leno

#10. College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

Katherine Mansfield

#12. Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

Cesar Millan

#13. Never submit we are all equals

Heather Nelson

#14. I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

Jonathan Aitken

#15. Living in the mistakes of your past isn't going to do anything but destroy your future.

Rebecca Donovan

#16. The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

Seth Godin