Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater Category: Books
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. – Holbrook Jackson Category: Books
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin Category: Books
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard Category: Books
Im going to work so that its a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. – Steve Prefontaine Category: work
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. – Linda McCartney Category: Marriage