Bodleian Quotes

#1. I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

Laurie R. King

#2. For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

Lavie Tidhar

#3. If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

King James I

#4. Elias Ashmole, a seventeenth-century book collector and alchemist whose books and papers had come to the Bodleian from the Ashmolean Museum in the nineteenth century, along with the number 782.

Deborah Harkness

#5. Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?

Muriel Barbery

#6. I may plan to make Christ the center of Christmas, but when I wait until December to focus on celebrating His birthday, I become entangled in Christmas lights, holiday baking, and festive engagements, often wondering if I've experienced the illusive "true meaning" of Christmas.

Ann Marie Stewart

#7. Oh hell." He gasped, his back arching, his balls drawing up painfully tight. "Don't make me come too quickly.

Sylvia Day

#8. The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

J. Oswald Sanders

#9. We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

Steven Pressfield

#10. I feel like when I carry a bigger bag, it looks like it's a huge bag because I'm really tiny. But I do think it's important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#11. It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Tacitus

#12. Who's happy these days?

Ethel Merman

#13. I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.

Neil T. Anderson

#14. The question remains ... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?"
"I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.

Julie Anne Long

#15. It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

James Mackintosh

#16. Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

Walter E. Williams

#17. You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers
the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.

Gurbaksh Chahal

#18. Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

N. F. Simpson