Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

March 23, 2012

The book title reflects what I think of myself.  I have always felt that my greatest achievement was to survive my upbringing.  The greatest lessons I ever learned, I learned on the road.  The scars on my skin are my road map. ~ Henry Rollins (from "One From None")

December 17, 2011

Re-examine all that you've been told in school, or in church, or in any book.  Dismiss whatever insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman

June 30, 2011

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ~ Jane Austen ( from "Northanger Abbey")

May 07, 2011

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. ~ Bill Vaughan

August 26, 2010

There is this strange idea that books are elitist. Totally untrue. Books are about ideas and ideas belong to everybody. ~ Evan Solomon

August 10, 2010

Christians are quick to scoff at the absurdity of other religions when most fail to realize they worship a book that contains talking snakes, bushes, and donkeys. ~ Unknown