Hardbound Dictionary Quotes

#1. I don't stop to imagine home and the people in it, because this is so far from home, I am another person entirely.

Deb Caletti

#2. A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Jane Austen

#3. The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you're an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

Yvon Chouinard

#4. When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

John Wanamaker

#5. Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.

Bo Sanchez

#6. These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone.

Edmond Manning

#7. The confident you speak it, the stronger the message.

Anthony Liccione

#8. There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

Robert South

#9. I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists.

Rob Corddry

#10. You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

Ngaio Marsh

#11. In Black Like Me, I tried to establish one simple fact, which was to reveal the insanity of a situation where a man is judged by his skin color, by his philosophical "accident" - rather than by who he is in his humanity.

John Howard Griffin

#12. I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Henry Cavill