Firsts Quote by Finley Peter Dunne

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

— Mason Cooley

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with…

— Margaret Fuller

The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's…

— Allen Ginsberg

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

— Henry David Thoreau

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use…

— Karl Lagerfeld

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the…

— Anne Fadiman

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and…

— Carolina Herrera

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

— Michael Dirda

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

— Patrick O'Brian

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

— Anna Quindlen

“The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.”

— Billy Baldwin

“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a…

— Alan Bennett