That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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Aphra Behn
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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John Lubbock
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening.. .. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
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Kathleen Norris
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
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Eleanor Brown
...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
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Jan Louch
More Quotes By Neel Burton
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.
