Vanier Library Quotes

#1. True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#2. What did I expect, that you would wrap my rib cage with those enormous hands in which horses must be measured, lifting me overhead with the stern reproach that is every Western woman's sly delight, "You're too thin"?

Lionel Shriver

#3. 'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?

Cory Hardrict

#4. Each of us has his skeletons in his soul, as the English say.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

A.J. Darkholme

#6. In detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Jonathan Swift

#8. When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

James Dyson

#9. I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

#10. The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.

Bill Buckner

#11. Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

George Leonard

#12. For what is a dream if not love first felt and what is mystery if not life itself

Giselle V. Steele