Lumbera Book Quotes

#1. Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Joe Biden

#2. We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Marcel Proust

#4. I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

Moby

#5. All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

George Monbiot

#6. The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Karl Marx

#7. Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

James Fenton

#8. Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding. All too often, we've seen value stagnate in the presence of hubris or of boredom that caused the attention of managers to wander.

Warren Buffett

#9. If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

Katherine Dunham

#10. People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It's those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in.

Crystal Kadakia

#11. Tell me you want me even if you didn't have demon blood." Because I don't have demon blood and I still want you.

Cassandra Clare

#12. In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

Dannion Brinkley

#13. A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free

Langston Hughes

#14. If you've survived parasites and bacteria until the age of nineteen, you can survive sane people.

Cameron Jace

#15. I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.

Donal Logue

#16. The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

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