Miscellaneous Quotes

Where words fail, Music speaks - Hans Christian Anderson

If I waited for perfection ...I would never write a word. - Margaret Atwood

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. - Ingrid Bergman

A home without books is a body without soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry - Emily Dickson

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. - Marian Wright Edelman

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they're gone. - George Eliot

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day - Vincent Van Gogh

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. - Elizabeth Hardwick

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins

I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think - Socrates

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice - Tom Stoppard