Quote by Donnie Eichar Download Open image ““Wunderkammer or “wonder room”—what the English would call a cabinet of curiosities.”” — Donnie Eichar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower… — David McCord Copy Share Image
“Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling,… — Lance Taubold Copy Share Image
“This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“One government tactic was to flood record shops with unplayable records, many intended to damage record players. Some of these records included threatening vocals… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“Heiss Island, an island in the northern archipelago of Franz Josef Land, which was over 1,200 miles away from where the hikers had set… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre in which Soviet troops with machine guns mowed down a group of factory protesters—” — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“The hikers themselves would not have damaged their own tent in this way, even by accident, so this seems to suggest one thing: Someone… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“Across both doors was a splash of vandalism in the universal language of Fuck You.” — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute. After purchasing… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“But then “Siberia,” historically, has been less a geographical designation than a state of mind, a looming threat—the frozen hell on earth to which… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
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