Breviaries Quotes

#1. Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#2. A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

Tom Berenger

#4. Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

Belle De Jour

#5. We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

Frederick Denison Maurice

#6. It may be shameful to be happy by oneself.

Albert Camus

#7. Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Pablo Picasso

#8. If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

Harold Evans

#9. Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

Maureen Corrigan

#10. We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Wallace Stegner