My library
Was dukedom large enough.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My library was dukedom large enough.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize ab...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my du...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shake...
JENNIFER DONNELLY He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
ALAN YANG Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither cou...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNER My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, bu...
RICHARD CARMONA William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and you'll be the costumer who cried. 'Oh, ...
NATHAN LANE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.
LISA SCHROEDER Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,...
LOIS HOROWITZ He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I was offered the part in Shakespeare
In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights r...
JOSEPH FIENNES If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.
ROGER ROSENBLATT I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man touched me:
his hand... my thigh.
I touched him too:
my fist... his j...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am nothing special, of this I am sure.
I am a common man with common
thoughts and I've l...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat th...
PATRICK NESS There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,
I didn't know why. By the time I m...
SANHITA BARUAH my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My mate is really, really weird.
She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
SHAY SAVAGE Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor i...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I love...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman under...
JOAN RIVERS If you trap a man in a large enough cage, he will believe he is free.
DANIEL SIMPSON The whole concept is that you should pay your percentage of fault. No more, no less.
WILLIAM LARGE And so upon this wise I prayed,--
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours
...
EMILY DICKINSON Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
AMANDA M. THRASHER Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant,...
JHUMPA LAHIRI What
happened was, it was poor timing,
LANNY POFFO Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me
C.S. LEWIS Oh, wow."
"What do you think?"
"I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much...
ELIZABETH HUNTER I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
TOM SIZEMORE We felt this was large enough to send a message.
RAE TYSON I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both...
BEN HECHT The new library was created fundamentally as the Spanish would have designed it, were they living he...
BERNARD MAYBECK I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u...
JOAN RIVERS Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!
He was ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't ev...
SCOTT DOUGLAS Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER When I grow up I mean to be
A Lion large and fierce to see.
I'll mew so loud that Cook in ...
OLIVER HERFORD Calvin: "I read this library book you got me."
Calvin's Mom: "What did you think of it?"
C...
BILL WATTERSON Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions.
-William Pickering
DAN BROWN O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi...
ELLIE GOULDING See, I have dated death
and decided
he was not
the man for me.
KARA PETROVIC Marry me, Thena, please.
I tried to sigh and would have managed it, had he left me enough...
SARAH A. HOYT I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
ALEXANDER SMITH If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.
If a man asks me for my honesty.....
JOHN BOYD what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.
The water...
RACHEL SHARP Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER