Quotes of: Bernard Keyword

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.

The Mason Dixon Line

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

Nu sperați că veți scăpa de cărți

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Existuje jistý druh vedoucích, kteří jsou známí svým "Moje dveře jsou vždycky otevřené" a bylo by pravděpodobně lepší utlouci se vlastním životopisem než pro ně pracovat.

The Last Continent

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

The Library at Night

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

The Library at Night

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

The Library at Night

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

The Library at Night

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Lysistrata

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The Points Of My Compass

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

The Writings of a Savage

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

The Writings of a Savage

We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

Albio Sires

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

Barry Levinson

Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.

Bev Perdue