Memoir Bookseller Anecdote Humor Quotes

#1. When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

John Grisham

#3. You Jump, I jump, remember

-Kate Winslet Titanic

Gill Paul

#4. Today is a gift.
Today is all I have.
I will be fully awake in today.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.

Maulik Pancholy

#6. Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.

B.R. Ambedkar

#7. Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#8. lawyer by training, Kajevic had the same talent as Hitler, making his gargantuan self-importance a proxy for his country's and his rantings the voice of his people's long-suppressed rage.

Scott Turow

#9. Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.

Matsuo Basho

#10. We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

Gail Devers

#11. Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Wilhelm Reich

#12. He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...

Hannah More

#13. I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.

Dylan Moran

#14. A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.

Travis McDade