Nathanson Rug Quotes

#1. We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life.

Ann Schlee

#2. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Seneca The Younger

#3. He was seeing the full extent of her failure - in the immensity of his own indifference. The droning stream of her insults was like the sound of a distant riveting machine, a long, impotent pressure that reached nothing within him.

Ayn Rand

#4. There's no better teacher for writing than reading ... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

Alisa Valdes

#5. I could do some work from home, and then maybe hit the waves for a little while before the kids came home from school.

Willow Rose

#6. There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.

Ned Vizzini

#7. Talent without work is useless, thank God

Mark Twain

#8. The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Helen Keller

#9. And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Edith Stein

#10. What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small ... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Philip K. Dick

#11. The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

Agnes Varda

#12. It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display - and the constant struggle between those vices and those virtues to try to do good and fulfill one's duty.

Jon Meacham