Bookplate Quotes

#1. Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#2. Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#3. Well," Bush answered, "I'm worried that sometimes your idealism will get in the way of what I think is sound governance.

Jon Meacham

#4. If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Bob Marley

#5. He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Marcus Aurelius

#6. The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

Mark Rubinstein

#8. I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.

Chris Christie

#9. You are your projects!

Tom Peters

#10. You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily

Candace Allan

#11. His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

Ian Botham

#13. Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

Rachel Bloom

#14. We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

Casey Affleck