Books Quotations Quotes

#1. I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

Walter Kirn

#2. At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.

Umberto Eco

#3. Old words are reborn with new faces.

Criss Jami

#4. Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

Willis Regier

#5. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston S. Churchill

#6. People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

Bob Dylan

#7. When you're part of an illegal government conspiracy, your actual job description gets hazy. [...] If you're working off the books, but the books don't officially exist in the first place, have you really gone rogue, or are you just putting in unpaid overtime?

Craig Schaefer

#8. Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

Gary Saul Morson

#9. Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland

#11. A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Marjorie Garber

#13. Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.

Gertrude Stein

#14. Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

P.D. James

#15. Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Beth Orton

#16. Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell

Michael Connelly

#18. President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

George Miller

#19. Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his ... he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so.

L.M. Montgomery

#20. In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Bob Dylan

#21. Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

Natalie Goldberg