“Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.” MindWellsStillsIdeasClearWrittenPaperPagesDrawsBottomFathom Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayMindFirstsArtBookOrderEasyLinesQualityCompanyCuttingDesignProduceWillingProductsPridePagesBottomCornersFinishedWorks Of ArtBottom LineOne WordIllustrationEasy WayAbram Author:Stan Lee
“My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.” WayMindBitsTearsPagesBottomStuckMagazinesPlanesFolds Author:Marc Jacobs
“The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .” IfsKnowsWellsBookProblemWantedNamesProcessFeetFiguresApproachPagesTestsBottomAveragePhonesInterviewsEach DaySpidersFlipTrickyManhattan Author:Bill Gates
“You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'” DoneSixPagesBottomArticles Author:Jim Gaffigan
“"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.” SometimesUsedStudyInformationExpressionPagesNotesBottomPhotographSignificantMapsArticlesSiteMargins Author:D. A. Carson
“I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.” FirstsWellsRealDonePhilosophyProblemParticularReaderPagesBottomSettingSettingsGrantedStrictStereotypeAustinReal Work Author:Philip Kitcher
“I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.” ThinkingImportantStoriesBlackSpaceWhitePagesBeatsPerformancesBottomTimingPausesBlackoutsWhite Space Author:Sandra Cisneros
“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.” PeopleKnowsWritingChildrenAnimalKnow HowStrangeGrewGrew UpPagesAdultsBottomDrawingChickensFarmsHandwritingScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.” WorldWantWritingNextSpaceHonorThousandTenFindingsPagesReflectionNotesBottomAshamedJournal Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel