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“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
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“There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.”
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“I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.”
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“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”
Source : The Waking (1953) p. 120
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“I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.”
Source : The Idler Interview (1896), as quoted in "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography" by Matthew Sturgis, 1999.
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“The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.”
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“Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.”
Source : John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub
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“It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and ***** the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.”
Source : Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”
