WIST Quotations

King, Stephen -- “Stephen King’s Most Memorable Books of 2007,” Entertainment Weekly (21 Dec 2007)

Dave — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:08:03 +0000

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Stephen King (b. 1947) American author
“Stephen King’s Most Memorable Books of 2007,” Entertainment Weekly (21 Dec 2007)

Chandler, Raymond -- The Long Goodbye, ch. 24 (1953)

Dave — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:04:21 +0000

She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) American novelist
The Long Goodbye, ch. 24 (1953)

Johnson, Samuel -- The Plays of William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” (1765)

Dave — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:08:53 +0000

No state can be more destitute than that of a him who, when the delites of sense forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
The Plays of William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” (1765)