Bryan > Bryan's Quotes

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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

“When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.”
― William H. Gass

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Perhaps all we want from reading is to return to that age when we could hold a book and cry, to that time between childhood and adolescence, the sweetest era of our lives.”
― Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid

“Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.”
― Jeff Bezos

“People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.”
― Jeff Bezos

“E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.”
― Jeff Bezos

“In the end, we are our choices.”
― Jeff Bezos

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner