A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell Category: Scholars, Scholarship
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland Category: Scholars, Scholarship
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Scholars, Scholarship
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Friendship
Sometimes you ask God for something and you dont know what youre asking. – Mahalia Jackson Category: God
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar. – Bill Nighy Category: respect
