Books Quote by K.M. Sheard

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

— DanTDM

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…

— Emily Dickinson

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“ --- she says it’s a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don’t know why they do ‘em.”…

— George Hammond

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

— John Hodgman

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

— Richard Rogers

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

— Kenny Werner

The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has…

— John French Sloan

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

— Emily Dickinson

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

— Nancy Price

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr