#boo

Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her. ↗

— Dinaw Mengestu

#libraries #beauty

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#bible #burden #dose #handbook #keeping

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. ↗

— Sam Walton

#accomplish #amazing #believe #boost #go

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#i #instead #japanese #miss #morning

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#i #write

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amazing #attention #away #boo #concept

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference. ↗

— Mike Lee

#difference #distinction #me #money #out

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. ↗

— James Laughlin

#book #everything #i #i do #orchestra

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #book #cases #close #close relationship

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#boogie #called #dancing #derek #express