Nonfiction Quote by Joseph Gies

I just lost a buttonhole.

— Steven Wright

“Miss Kelly, perhaps you'd like this flower. I seem to have misplaced my buttonhole.”

— Elwood P. Dowd

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

— Oscar Wilde

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. ”

— Joseph Gies

“Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists. ”

— Joseph Gies

“At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side…

— Joseph Gies

“Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open…

— Joseph Gies

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”

— John McPhee

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and…

— Kathleen Rooney