Endpapers Of A Book Quotes

#1. Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

Cornelia Funke

#2. I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

John Irving

#3. War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#4. It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.

Jessica Khoury

#5. If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.

Lois Greiman

#6. Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there.

Jacqueline Bisset

#7. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Thomas Carlyle

#8. The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

Tom Hardy

#9. Women don't like violence,
But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Euripides

#10. You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run

Kenny Rogers