Book Plate Sayings

#1. Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

Mia Wasikowska

#2. Be the symbol of love to feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#3. A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

William Temple

#5. Georg always looks beautiful! He wakes up like beauty himself

Bill Kaulitz

#6. If I didn't want you so much," he said in a deadly purr, "I'd let you keep fucking me with your gaze, but you make me impatient.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. The difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

James C. Collins

#10. We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.

Jackie French

#11. I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes with it, as a woman, as a leader, as someone who has stepped up to the plate and who opens the door for the rest of the women from the Middle East.

Reem Acra

#12. After I read David Suzuki's book, I took salmon from my dinner plate and I buried it in the woods, hoping to assist the growth of a large tree.

Ned Hayes

#13. Which is sharper? The hatchet that cuts down dreams? Or the scythe that clears a path for another?

Pam Munoz Ryan

#14. Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Bennett

#15. Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

Wes Fesler

#16. I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Anita Diament

#17. The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

A. Edward Newton

#18. Management has to be where the action is.

Dieter Zetsche

#19. Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Fulton J. Sheen

#20. The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Eugene Wigner

#21. I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus ... and I can plate and set the table.

Chris Rock