Ce Direct Quotes

#1. We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.

John Tavener

#2. I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Barbra Streisand

#3. A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

#4. A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Mark Lawrence

#5. Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

Mark Twain

#6. What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Saint Augustine

#7. Let the prison library not only meet the recognized needs of the men, but inspire them in further efforts. The reading habit once firmly fixed is among the best safeguards for any man.

Virginia Reeves

#8. This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it's still show biz.

Richard Kadrey

#9. To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Horace