Copperplate Quotes

#1. If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 - the famous First Folio.

Bill Bryson

#2. There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

#3. Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?

Rebecca McNutt

#4. Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

Pascal Mercier

#5. It seems like those of us who run a business can't go five minutes without encountering the term "company culture." The phrase is always uttered with extreme adoration, yet the very concept seems as nebulous as it is elusive.

Leah Busque

#6. Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Victor Hugo

#7. Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

John Kennedy Toole

#8. Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#9. The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Julia Ward Howe