Cindy > Cindy's Quotes

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Bidden or unbidden, God is present.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.”
― Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Enigma

“When you are the darkest presence in the room there is very little to fear.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“In short, Marx understood the power of mass communication and the need to control it and shape it to frame events and opinions. In other words, the purpose was to propagandize, not inform.”
― Mark R. Levin, American Marxism

“Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.”
― Ruth Moore, Candlemas Bay