Book Quote by Terry Pratchett

It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it…

— Terry Pratchett

Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about

— Gerald Gardner

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up…

— Henry Ward Beecher

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

— Sandra Bullock

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

— Jenny Hval

When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may…

— Ambrose Bierce

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded…

— Samuel Johnson

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

— Horace Mann

Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

— Woody Allen

I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if…

— Gordon Lightfoot

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

— Henry Adams