Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, comic, books and/or france:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: “Who am I?”, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: “Am I?” A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)