Brooklyn Public Library Quotes

#1. I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'

Jen Kirkman

#2. A blind man. I can stare at him
ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
No, he is in a great solitude.
O, strange joy,
to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
No, my thirst is greater than before.

Denise Levertov

#3. To be beautiful is a good thing, for which we should thank Nature - to be attractive, morally, rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that lasting quality.

Unknown

#4. If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to request that the company issue a recall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Be brutal. Be cruel. More lives will be saved in the long run.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

Natalie Dormer

#7. I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

Jon Richardson

#8. Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

Sara Genn

#9. Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.

Harry Shum Jr.

#10. A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#11. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Abigail Van Buren

#12. The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

Martin Amis

#13. I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.

Halston Sage

#14. If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Let us farm when it is clear and let us study when it rains.

Park Chung Hee

#16. Hearts and flowers - that's not who I am.

E.L. James