"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."

--

Source : George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

George William Curtis

#Book Quotes #Lamps Quotes #Burning Quotes

“If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.”

Source : "Bush calls McVeigh execution delay necessary" by Charles Bierbauer, www.cnn.com. May 11, 2001.
“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”
“Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.
“A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.”

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.91, Bantam
“When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.”
“My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.”
“We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.”
“My #â€Ž intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.”

You may also like:

Brander Matthews
Writer
Carl Schurz
Former U.S. Senator
Charles Eliot Norton
Author
George Ripley
Journalist
James G. Blaine
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
James Russell Lowell
Poet
John Churton Collins
Literary critic
John Lothrop Motley
Historian
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Lord President of the Council