“My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.” SaidIdeasShowsHeavenMiddleFrontsHolyApproachPagesExcitingNewspapersSmokeProfanity Author:Arthur Christiansen
“When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.” ThinkingMenMindWellsHeartLittlesGivenHeavenSpaceGriefSorrowPagesDietsGreat MenDeniedBlankSailBiographiesScarce Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!” MenLifeFirstsShowsHandsHeavenLinesSunChangedTaughtKingsLessonsPagesGardenLaborLettersGreenHungerDeedsGoldenSoilImmortalScholarToilPeasantsCharterSturdy Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?” IfsMenWorldShouldBookHelpingFeelingsEarthUniverseHeavenAirProudPagesForestsGlobesInsignificantHerdsFlocksAstronomersMosquitoes Author:Mark Twain
“I'd seen the Led Zeppelin reunion and I've never been such a huge Led Zeppelin fan as much as the Doors or Beatles. I went and saw the reunion and watching them play "Stairway to Heaven," it was very breathtaking for one reason mostly. I can imagine these two guys looking at each other, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Not to compare us to Led Zeppelin, but I did miss the fact that I could look over at the guy, Twiggy Ramirez, that wrote "The Beautiful People" and "Dope Show." Emotionally, it's taken a long time to repair that.” PeopleLooksLongI CanTwoReasonPlayFactsShowsBeautifulGuyHeavenTakenSawsImagineDoorsFansMissingHugePagesLong TimePlantCompareJimmyDopeReunionBeautiful PeopleZeppelinsBreathtakingTwo GuysStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Marilyn Manson
“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.” LightReadingHeavenAmountBedPagesAssumingCoffeeSheetsSpillingCognac Author:Stephen King
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.” IfsKnowsMenKindMayMeanBeautifulHeavenPoorTalkingKnow HowPoetExpressionPagesSakeExcuseFascinatingSolitaryDroppingPoor ManSomething Beautiful Author:J. D. Salinger