Book Inscription Quotes

#1. The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Steal not this book, my worthy friend,
For fear the gallows will be your end;
Up the ladder, and down the rope,
There you'll hang until you choke;
Then I'll come along and say -
'Where's that book you stole away?

Jen Campbell

#3. Who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted [Nwoye's] young soul
the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed. He felt a relief within as the hymn poured into his parched soul.

Chinua Achebe

#4. If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.

Terrence E. Deal

#5. Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.

Ryan Reynolds

#6. WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!

Carrie White

#7. I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

John Darnielle

#8. Read the inscription," he said. I opened the book. On the flyleaf it said: "To Hilda, so that on the day we part the substance of my hopes for the future and my predestined struggle will remain with you. Ernesto 20-1-55.

Hilda Gadea

#9. A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

John McAfee

#10. People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins