Bookishly Quotes

#1. Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

Diablo Cody

#2. (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. My soul is in a reckless way, it's seeking culture untouched by greed, it's seeking places untouched by human spirit, it's seeking places that need love, because my soul is here for love and I feel everywhere I've already been has suffocated every inch of beauty out of me.

Nikki Rowe

#4. Or was it never trust a man with orange eyebrows?

Terry Pratchett

#5. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

Howie Long

#6. I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing
tightrope walking comes immediately to mind
but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

Calvin Trillin

#7. I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

Nadine Labaki

#8. Programming is a social activity.

Robert C. Martin