Steamboating On The Mississippi Quotes

#1. Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Nate Silver

#2. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

Louise Penny

#3. There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

Mary Butts

#4. Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#5. I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Armando Iannucci

#6. To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

Elliott Merrick

#7. You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

Dwight Howard

#8. if you use your own thinking to check things, then you are going against Jehovah.

Joseph Winters

#9. One could only trudge away from the place to which one had hurried in such hope at the start. One could only begin again, a year older, and resolve to carry oneself in such a way that the pressure wave of the tragedy was contained within one's own body, and could not spread one inch further.

Chris Cleave

#10. The only calling we have is to "GO

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

Dannie Abse

#12. I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

Sebastian Faulks

#13. How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Jay Kay