"Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." — Anna Quindlen
"Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
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171 Quotes by Anna Quindlen
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never…
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents…
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf…
— Theodore Bikel
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The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
— Richard Bach
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks,…
— Sufjan Stevens
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For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic…
— Carl Safina
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You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take…
— Joel Salatin
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one…
— Phyllis Rose
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I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain…
— Sue Townsend
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us…
— Steven Saylor
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If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's…
— Jonathan Evison
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