Famous quotes containing the words blank, book and/or company:
“If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse! you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)