Overdue Book Quotes

#1. What's the fastest route to the library in Peachtree City? (Carlos)
What? You've got an overdue book? (Gabrielle)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. One of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

Dean Koontz

#3. The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Socrates

#4. What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?

Brian Keene

#5. Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

Charles Darwin

#6. It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

William Osler

#7. [From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Dorothy Parker

#8. I felt the fight-or-flight reflex swell up in me over and over again, but I knew that neither fight nor flight had ever worked for me before.

John Green

#9. That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure them out.

Mike DeWine

#10. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

Daniel Gordis

#11. It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

Gareth Roberts

#12. I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Edward R. Murrow

#13. Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Ben Barnes

#14. I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?

Chick Hearn

#15. On Money - There are many ways to get rich quickly. All of them are risky. Some of them are dangerous. A few of them are downright fatal.

Marsha Hinds

#16. It dosn't metter how meny type of products. Sale of product is always SAME.

Sushil Singh

#17. Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.

Richard J. Foster

#18. What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. I mean, contrary to popular belief, I'm actually not harboring a secret desire to grow up and become a bioterrorist.

Elizabeth Norris

#20. Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

Helen Keller