(23 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
“A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, ... There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get excited how he can discover things through books is pretty phenomenal.”
John Foley
“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
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose”
George Carlin
“We finally have a bookstore.”
“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
“I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,”
Boris Diodorov
“The days where (the campus bookstore) had a mini-monopoly are coming to an end.”
Richard Davies
