Starrett Quotes

#1. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.

Peter Ruber

#2. Nothing's changed. When people read The Highwayman , they see it all in their heads. Their imagination is way more powerful than anything you can throw onto the screen. Look at the great graphic novels they've already butchered.

Glenn Benest

#3. Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.

Vincent Starrett

#4. He was Lieutenant again. Which meant he was so screwed. Sam or even Roger would have had at least a slim chance of talking her out of bringing him in, but not Lieutenant Starrett.

Suzanne Brockmann

#5. the cold, hard truth is that exercise will not reverse the potentially harmful and irrefutable effects that too much sitting has on our bodies.

Kelly Starrett

#6. The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

Vincent Starrett

#7. Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. Only those things the heart believes are true.

Vincent Starrett

#9. I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Rick Ross

#10. You hate to cultivate the mindset that anything that is not a braced neutral spinal position is probably going to kill you.

Kelly Starrett

#11. I've lived through Hitler, Stalin, the Cold War, the British Empire, segregation, apartheid, God knows what. The world will survive this, and with just a tiny bit of luck so will everyone you love.

Kamila Shamsie

#12. Neutral feet start in your trunk, so really go after those tight hips:

Kelly Starrett

#13. When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.

Kelly Starrett

#14. Superficially it may appear that I am more interested in books than in people; but I think it nearer the mark to say that I am more interested in people as they are revealed to me in books than as they reveal themselves to me in daily contact.

Vincent Starrett

#15. Life's a quest - A long search for something we can't name; something we want and usually can't get. We don't know precisely what it is - all we know is that we don't get it. What a fellow needs is something in which he can lose himself when everything else is a mess.

Peter Ruber

#16. When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Vincent Starrett

#17. Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

Vincent Starrett

#18. Well, we're all animals, really
just with a veneer of civilization.

Michelle Cooper

#19. Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: ', with love from Momma.

Vincent Starrett

#20. President Obama said the small drone that flew over the White House fence yesterday could be bought at any RadioShack. After hearing this, the RadioShack CEO said, 'I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.'

Conan O'Brien

#21. I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

Maurice Sendak

#22. Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then." He grimaced and said wistfully, "It's what made me give up the good life on the road." He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly.

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said ... 'are only degrees of theft.

Miguel Syjuco

#24. The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Susan Sontag

#25. The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Douglas Kennedy

#26. I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

Vincent Starrett

#27. The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he lived the Star Wars universe. Sometimes such a fan will even spend as much time as he can in weekend costume conventions. For Warrenites, that's going to church.

Robert M. Price

#28. It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ...

Vincent Starrett

#29. I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

Penelope Wilton

#30. Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

Jonathan Ames