Bookshelf Manners Quotes

#1. Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#2. We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

Henry Louis Gates

#3. The last nice young man I'd met had nearly broken me. I wasn't ready to be tied down again. And I wasn't ready to share what was left of myself yet, either.

Delilah S. Dawson

#4. Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. Little sub, you're thinking and worrying again. Time to put you to work."
Work? Scrub the bathroom or
"Kneel.

Cherise Sinclair

#6. The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

Gregory Maguire

#7. I look over at Joe. He's listening to me so carefully , like he wants to catch my words in his hands as they fall from my lips.

Jandy Nelson

#8. Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#9. He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: "This is as amusing as a novel.

Laurent Binet

#10. Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

Bill Johnson

#11. Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#12. If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well.

Keith Ablow

#13. I have repeatedly said that success requires concerted efforts and support of the fans.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

#14. I have known people," he said, "who succeeded because they had a rip-roaring good time conducting their business. Later, I saw those people change as the fun became work. The business had grown dull.

Dale Carnegie

#15. In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

#16. Bolder animals sally forth, swallowed regularly by those farther up the food chain but surviving when food is scarce and they need to assume more risk.

Susan Cain