There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
So many people want to live their lives and their dreams through their own Facebook page or their Twitter page. They want… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image