Margins Quotes

110 Margins quotes by 101 unique authors

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know. — Thornton Wilder
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like… — Robert Bringhurst
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest… — Tara Bray Smith
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,… — Louisa May Alcott
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but… — J D Salinger
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should… — Sam Harris
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. — Joanna Russ
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly… — Desiderius Erasmus
Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf) You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who’s worse, my Urian or… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino
Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins. — Simone Elkeles
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long… — Helene Hanff
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on… — Lisa Unger
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who… — Sebastian Barry
Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no… — Tammara Webber
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not… — Christopher Hitchens
Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live… — Gregory Maguire
I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and… — Randy Pausch
This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in… — Scott Lynch
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in… — Helene Hanff
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his… — Jim Jarmusch
For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies… — Ryan Holmes
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays… — Vivek Wadhwa

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