Quotes About Bookends

#1. For me, 'Bookends' marks the start of my foray into commercial fiction, away from what has always been thought of as more traditional chick lit - single girl in the city trips around in Manolos looking for Mr. Right.

Jane Green

#2. It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Tim Minchin

#3. She is both
the bookends
and the stories between.

Kirk Diedrich

#4. Saturdays and Mondays were Sundays' bookends. On Saturdays preachers were neurotic planning what they would say, and on Mondays they were neurotic for having said it."7

Calvin Miller

#5. Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

Anthony Marra

#6. Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

Joyce Meyer

#7. I divide my life into two parts. Not really a Before and After, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid years of empty musings, years of late adolescent or the twentysomething whose coat of adulthood simply does not fit.

Sarah Winman

#8. Life was a short shelf that came with bookends.

Stephen King

#9. Sometimes I thought of us as a pair of damaged bookends. We both had our flaws but we belonged together even if there was always something between us, keeping us apart.

Karen Lynch

#10. They stood either side of him like haunting little genetic bookends. The one thing he'll leave behind, two kids who called another man for help with their homework.

David Louden

#11. ... "Holy crap!" Rachel wondered what it was about extreme disaster that made people invoke both religion and excrement - bookends to mark the polarities of human condition?

Douglas Coupland

#12. Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

Eudora Welty

#13. The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

John C. Maxwell

#14. In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.

Chang-rae Lee

#15. I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

John Travolta

#16. I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#17. Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

Will Smith

#18. Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.

Rebecca Rasmussen

#19. Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?"
"This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

Patrick Rothfuss

#20. My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.

Pat Conroy

#21. Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

Liane Holliday Willey

#22. We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories.

Ilsa J. Bick

#23. There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament.

Adriana Trigiani

#24. Hello" and "good-bye" were a pair of bookends, propping up a vast library of blank volumes, void almanacs, novels full of sentiment I couldn't apprehend

Lauren Collins

#25. How shall we go about this? Dermot asked. He was blond and Claude was dark; the looked like gorgeous bookends.

Charlaine Harris

#26. Talent is universal, opportunity is not.

Vinay Singh

#27. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

Karin Slaughter

#28. No, I didn't remember the deer. Is the deer okay?'
'Fuck the deer. Hush now.

Jennifer Echols

#29. Besides, he would know that I did it on purpose. (Serenity)
Honey, I assure you, that man won't think a thing. His mind will be on other matters. You could chop off his head and he wouldn't notice. (Kristen)

Kinley MacGregor

#30. He who has two languages has two souls.

Quintus Ennius

#31. Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

Charles A. Murray

#32. Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

Jose Saramago

#33. Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

Peter Kreeft

#34. He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Alec-Tweedie

#35. You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Tim McGraw

#36. If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#37. My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce