"The function of a great library is to store obscure books."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Book Quotes #Library Quotes #Obscure Quotes

“Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers”
“Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!”
“You better...buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game”
“This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.”
“Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live.”
“If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.”
“Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.”
“It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.”

Source : Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

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