Books Quote by Gillian Tans

It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I…

— Lena Dunham

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison…

— Os Guinness

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient…

— Clifton Fadiman

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity…

— Mary C. Ames

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience -…

— Kevin Maney

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

— Thomas Malthus

“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the…

— Ayn Rand

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named…

— Marquis de Sade

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

— Sylvia Porter

“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana