Bekkum Library Quotes

#1. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

Indiana Lang

#2. So? They're paid to be ogled at," said Moist. "They are professional oglees. It's an ogling establishment. For oglers. And you heard what's going on in the palace. We could be at war in a day. Do you trust that lot? Trust me.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

Confucius

#4. I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.

Roseanne Barr

#5. The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

Jim Henson

#6. Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

Neko Case

#7. Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

John Gay

#8. Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.

Marie Kondo

#10. My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Billy Collins