books

"It is an intense blue, born after a certain period and has in turn a key to reading. When we spread it on the sculpture, the story is burned, because the color is so vivid that what is written in the …"

"EEK EEK EEK!! That's dolphin for 'I'm sorry.' But you already knew that.."

"Joplin, Janis Lyn" in The Handbook of Texas Online"

"Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."

"In the days following the presidential election , there were so many stories of African Americans erased from voter rolls you might think they were targeted by some kind of racial computer program. Th…"

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."

"The Secret Garden audiobook at Librivox"

"In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."

"The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

"There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;"

"The favourite volume whose reading we commend, is inevitably connected with ourselves — it must bring to our image those lonely hours when the recurrence of an image has such influence — it invests th…"

"If you are someone who reads books to feel like you have a friend on the page, my book is not going to be the book for you…I write for people who are readers the way I'm a reader. I don't care if I di…"

"Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?"

"If this book were to find general public acceptance, it would bring with it a brutalization of the human race such as it had never seen before."

"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."

"Myron Scholes Stanford University Faculty Page"

"my customary aversion to consulting a book by anyone so immensely pratty as to put "Ph.D." after his name ."

"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety tha…"

"Annotated bibliography for Paul Nitze from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues"

"We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading “positive attitude” protrudes from o…"