Bookish Shop Quotes

#1. If you're going to be a musician's girlfriend, you have to know that your man will always love his bandmates in a way you can't even touch, because they are the guys who help him create music. You can only help him create a living human being, with your dumb uterus.

Julie Klausner

#2. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Marilyn Monroe

#3. The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Felix Adler

#4. I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

#5. There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll

James Patterson

#7. I love to read, but I'm not a reviewer. I'll leave the reviewing to someone else. Suffice it to say, if I'm reading your book, I'm loving it.

John Inman

#8. At that moment, Dave would have lifted a house for Jimmy, held it up to his chest until Jimmy told him where to put it down.

Dennis Lehane

#9. It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Colin Hay