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“If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“You have not failed until you quit trying.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

“It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.”
― Brandon Mull, Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

“An unread book does nobody any good”
― Brandon Mull

“We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

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

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“I am what I am because I have made myself so.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

“The artist must forget the audience,
forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
Then, the music speaks through the performance,
and the performer and the listener will walk together
with the soul of the composer, and with
God.”
― Mstislav Rostropovich

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can measure but not manhandle, driven by a force you can infer but not explain.”
― Tim Radford, The Crisis of Life on Earth: Our Legacy from the Second Millennium