Bookroom Books Quotes

#1. In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

#2. My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

Tim Tebow

#3. The mind is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.

Robin S. Sharma

#4. I bought a dog the other day ... I named him Stay. It's fun to call him ... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

Steven Wright

#5. Emotional awareness is the tether between our Awakened and Dream States. It is the bridge that connects our island in the physical realm to the unexplored Universes that are waiting for us.

Gary Hopkins

#6. I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

George Herbert

#7. Don't worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don't worry if you aren't known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration.

Confucius

#8. Any chance you might sit on my face?'
'Carnal Knowledge'
'That's the stuff.'
'No, I mean 'Carnal Knowledge, the movie. Jack Nicholson says that to Ann Margret when they first meet. She's a skater.'
'Well, is there?'
'Are you always this direct?

Linda Banana

#9. It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

Barry Goldwater

#10. Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Paul Kagame

#11. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Zadie Smith

#12. Congress is the third branch of government ... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

Wesley Pruden