Tag: qotd

Despair, Dismay, Disorientation, and Delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way.

–Dominique “Mo” O’Brien, The Annihilation Score

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
–Neil Gaiman

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
–Josh Jameson

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
–Harold Kushner

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
–Haruki Murakami

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
–Oscar Wilde

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
–Marcel Proust

Beware of the person of one book.
–Thomas Aquinas

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
–Oscar Wilde

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
–W. Somerset Maugham

There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.
–Gail Carson Levine

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
–C.S. Lewis

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
–William Lyon Phelps

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
–Paul Sweeney

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
–Alan Bennett

On planning and organization:

I imagine that she’s the sort of person who has 5 bottles of ketchup in her fridge, all of which are opened.

I’m always happy. While she was talking during the meeting, I was thinking that if there was a cartoon speech bubble above my head, it would read “we are fucked”. But I’m still happy.