(22 quotes found)
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage.”
Bill Cosby
“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
William S. Burroughs
“If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, Phileas Fogg would still be in the air, the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have had time to tell anyone his story.”
Michael Winerip
“I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,”
Boris Diodorov
“You go to a bookstore, there's a million books, ... I found one that relates to me. It's not telling you what to do. It's more, 'If you want to do this, you might want to try these things.' If it helps, continue. If it doesn't, stroll through the pages and find something that will help you.”
Cliff Floyd
“We finally have a bookstore.”
John Foley
“I spent seven months trying to collect from a major bookstore chain. Amazon drops the money in my checking account every single month without fail.”
Cathy Stucker
“Even our bookstore didn't have the greatest amount. We had a Jai Lewis jersey. I think that might have been it.”
Gabe Norwood
“The independent bookstores that are left have learned how to compete in this marketplace. There are fewer bookstores now, but the ones that are left are not only a good place to buy books, but they are also well-run businesses.”
Hut Landon
“The days where (the campus bookstore) had a mini-monopoly are coming to an end.”
Richard Davies