| "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." Barbara Tuchman |
| "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein |
| "The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library." Malcolm Forbes |
| "An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." Arnold Glasow |
| "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie |
| "Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter." Paxton Hood |
| "I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." Jane Wagner |
| "Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." Merry Browne |
| "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater." Roman Polanski |
| "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." William James |
| "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks." Goethe |
| "Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!" Owens Lee Pomeroy |
| "Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission." Fred Allen |
| "The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people." James Randolph Adams |
| "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." Norman Douglas |
| "Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space." Rebecca West |
| "The internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom." Jon Stewart |
| "You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy." Eric Hoffer |
| "To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." Ben Jonson |
| "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." Robert Goheen |
| "The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink." Fran Lebowitz |
| "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." Gustav Mahler |
| "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." Bernard Baruch |
| "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties." Doug Larson |
| "Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired." Richard Kemph |
| "Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time." George Bernard Shaw |
| "In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes." Antoine Rivarol |
| "Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face." James D. Finley |
| "Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution." Ivan Chermayeff |
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