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Category Archives: Quotes

What Unknown Said

Faring thee well, now. Let your life proceed by its own design. Nothing to tell, now. Let the words be yours. I’m done with mine. 

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianMarch 16, 2012April 11, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:nonfiction, quotes, unknownLeave a comment on What Unknown Said

The light can come through you, not that you matter. But the light does. Why should you twist, then, and turn, hiding it?

::Powell’s Poetry

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianMarch 7, 2012April 11, 2015Posted inPoetry, QuotesTags:light, quotesLeave a comment on

I wander through fiction to look for the truth…

::Goo Goo Dolls

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianNovember 14, 2011April 11, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:drunken library, fiction, goo goo dolls, quotes, truthLeave a comment on

I feel tall tonight. Like I could stride the Earth.

two sugars

 

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianNovember 2, 2011April 11, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesLeave a comment on

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

:: Henry David Thoreau

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianOctober 30, 2011April 11, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:castles, drunken library, foundations, inspiration, quotesLeave a comment on

If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting IT. It’s HIM.

“A Mad Tea Party,” Alice In Wonderland:: Lewis Carroll

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianOctober 6, 2011April 11, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:timeLeave a comment on

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