Jenn > Jenn's Quotes

“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
― Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
― Pablo Picasso

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Pop music is like fast food. It's always available quickly and might even taste good while you're eating it...but eventually you're going to shit it out and see it for what it really is--all the packaging in the world can't cover up the fact that it's excrement.”
― Marcus Eder, Rorschach's Ribs

“Peace is a fine balance – like a feather standing on its end. It only takes a small breeze to tip it over. But once that has occurred, it is much harder to stand the feather on its end again. Trust is damaged and respect dissolved. - Horus, King of the Gods”
― S.W. Lothian, The Cursed Nile

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky