« All Shrines Quotes
·
Jason Epstein's Page
Shrines Quotes by Jason Epstein
1 Shrines quote by Jason Epstein
More Quotes by Jason Epstein
Jason Epstein has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The…
-
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that…
-
Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public…
-
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to…
-
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar,…
-
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship…
-
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked…
-
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population…
-
The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost…
-
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.
See all 10 quotes by Jason Epstein »
More Shrines Quotes
Popular Shrines quotes from across the collection:
-
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It…
— Morihei Ueshiba
-
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a…
— Calvin Coolidge
-
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me…
— Walter Russell
-
Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority -…
— Rajneesh
-
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned…
— Norman Cousins
-
The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
-
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the…
— Barack Obama
-
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us…
— Unknown Author
-
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
-
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
— Charles Buck
-
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of…
— Paul Morphy
See all Shrines Quotes »
Browse Jason Epstein Quotes by Category