Bibliomania Oakland Quotes

#1. He imagined that the great dark abyss of space was alive and that he might attract its attention if he stared too long into it - that it might twist and stir and fix its pitiless gaze upon him.

Tom Melly

#2. Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#3. I'll be here when you return."
"I fixed my door. You'll need a key."
"I'll take good care of it."
"What if I won't give it to you?"
"Then I'll break the door again."
"This dormitory makes me feel so safe.

Stephanie Perkins

#4. I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

Michael Phelps

#5. For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.

Michael Ondaatje

#6. Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

E. Merrill Root

#7. To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

Richie Ashburn