Unius Libri Quotes

#1. Beware of the man of one book.
[Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Isaac D'Israeli

#2. Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

Yukio Mishima

#3. Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Bobbie Gentry

#5. I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Charisma Carpenter

#6. Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Sir Fulke Greville

#7. If there's any greater exhibit of the malleability of human nature than the sight of someone standing, absently waiting for the light to change at a deserted intersection, I don't know what it is.

Christopher Sorrentino

#8. In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

Marie Windsor

#9. I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#10. The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

Robert Montgomery

#11. You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.

Kenny Luck

#12. Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

Martha Bolton