“So tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.”
-Billy Crystal 2012
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson- 1803-1882
Good to know …..Even Ralph Waldo Emerson cannot remember the books he read. At least we are in good company!
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
-Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn’t become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.”
Yann Martel 1963-
(author of Beatrice and Virgil, Life of Pi)
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
Arnold Lobel 1933-1987
Sounds familiar… doesn’t it? Except for the beard of course! What is in your stack?
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
-Stephen Fry 1957-
What do you think? Will our great-grandchildren be reading books and visiting libraries? Is the written book becoming a thing of the past?
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
“You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
-Charlie “Tremendous” Jones 1927 – 2008
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
-Hal Borland 1900-1978
“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
-Anatole France 1844-1924
This quote made me laugh! Some things never change!