Rathmell Vanderbilt Quotes

#1. Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

James Surowiecki

#2. Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

Linda Sue Park

#3. Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Alice Sebold

#4. Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

Willis Regier

#5. The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

Frank Zappa

#6. I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Joyce Maynard

#7. I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#8. Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

Anthony De Mello

#9. Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?

~Jack or The Submission

Eugene Ionesco

#10. The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

Neil Peart

#11. If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Minoru Yamasaki

#12. There's a big Alzheimer's benefit in a couple of weeks. A charity ball is right after that. We eat, we smile, we pose.
No balls. None.
I'm sorry to hear that. Have you talked to a doctor?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#13. We're Nephilim. Every one of our life's passages has some mystical component - our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone's parabatai. It's no small commitment.

Cassandra Clare