Schlessman Library Quotes

#1. It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.

Shawn Ashmore

#2. The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Walter Benjamin

#3. The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Confucius

#4. Ah, it is impossible."
"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#5. Even the worst thing has two good verso-sides.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#7. I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.

Wayne Rooney

#8. I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

Andre Leon Talley

#9. No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca The Younger

#10. There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Friendship is full of dregs.

William Shakespeare

#12. I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.

Corin Tucker

#13. Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

J.A. Konrath