Glisenti 1910 Quotes

#1. This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is so widespread that it deserves some detailed examination.

George Orwell

#2. From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.

Mike Quigley

#3. In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Confucius

#4. Good morning, this is Dan Rather, with the news. Today, [person] died in an insanely nonhumorous manner

Tao Lin

#5. It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I thought you were makin' small talk about the weather."
"When have I ever made small talk with you?"
"When we first met."
"No, I made small talk with Bessie, your shotgun, until you removed her double barrels from my kisser."
Violet and a typical conversation with Harvey

Ann Charles

#7. The world is a university.

Art Hochberg

#8. Physical therapy begins immediately and continues daily.

Adele Levine

#9. I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

Ira Glass

#10. When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Robert Browning

#11. Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

Diane Sawyer

#12. I have to force myself to look away from those irresistible dimples; they unleash the desire between my legs.

Emily Rose Philips

#13. We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: I knew him when -

Arthur Guiterman

#15. We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Henry Mayhew