Scribner Quotes

#1. I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Morley Callaghan

#2. I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

Jamie Wyeth

#3. It seemed like such a pointless, flaky thing to say. Even if it was his favorite line from The Lord of the Rings. CHAPTER 48 From: Jennifer Scribner-Snyder To: Beth Fremont Sent: Mon, 12/06/1999 9:28 AM Subject: I'll bet you're the kind of girl who's already picked out baby names.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. They'd even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young

Olivia Laing

#5. Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Helen Reddy

#7. The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.

Don Scribner

#8. We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#9. If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Hilaire Belloc

#10. If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.

Richard F. Syron

#11. This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.

John Kennedy Toole

#12. I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

Hippocrates

#13. Marriage is a shared sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I play blues old-timey style.

Pinetop Perkins

#15. She saw it all so clearly. Her starving mother, her missing father. Kommunisten. Her dead brother.

Markus Zusak

#16. Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Charles Scribner Jr.

#17. The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

Frank Turek

#18. Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.

Henry Abbey

#19. I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.

Harry S. Truman

#20. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner Jr.