Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
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To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire… — Barry Neil Kaufman Copy Share Image
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
For me, when you get to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's a side of me that goes, "What does… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
"Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it… — James E. Burke Copy Share Image
Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
