"On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' . . . Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's."

-- William Safire

#Book Quotes #Yale Quotes #Editors Quotes

“After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask (1997). “History of My Life”, p.50, JHU Press
“The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.”

Source : John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.119, Hackett Publishing
“Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.”
“The delights of self-discovery are always available.”
“The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.”
“Malcolm Turnbull, more than anyone, changes month to month on a range of issues.”
“I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?”

Source : "White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward". Book by Brandon Boyd, 2003.
“Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.”

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