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Cartea este o asigurare de viata, un mic avans de nemurire.
~ Umberto Eco
A thesis studies an object by making use of specific instruments. Often the object is a book and the instruments are other books.
~ Umberto Eco
Ksi??ka to ubezpieczenie na ?ycie, male?ka antycypacja nie?miertelno?ci.
~ Umberto Eco
William snapped, 'Drop it; we're looking for a Greek book!' 'This?' I asked, showing him a work whose pages were covered with abstruse letters. And William said, 'No, that's Arabic, idiot! Bacon was right: the scholar's first duty is to learn languages!' 'But you don't know Arabic, either!' I replied, irked, to which William answered, 'At least I understand when it IS Arabic!
~ Umberto Eco
she made DDT the centerpiece of the book's lengthy indictment: throughout the book Carson refers to it nearly two hundred times.
~ Vaclav Smil
Yo soy tu, querida madre, y mientras yo viva, tu también lo harás. Cuando muera, tu seguiras viviendo en este libro que te he dedicado y cuyo destino esta estrechamente atado a tu destino
~ Vassily Grossman
KEY RESOURCE: Frances Frei and Anne Morriss' book Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business
~ Verne Harnish
Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You, by Rosanne Badowski. She is Jack Welch's longstanding executive assistant and has written a book that we highly recommend all executive assistants read.
~ Verne Harnish
Lynne Twist's insightful book titled The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life
~ Verne Harnish
agenda. These themes frame the formal plan of this book. The argument covers the three years since Trump announced his presidential bid in July 2015 to mid-2018, as he neared the end of the second year of his presidency. Part 1, the first three chapters
~ Victor Davis Hanson
This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.
~ Victor Hugo
La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.
~ Victor Hugo
Madame Magloire sometimes called him 'Your Highness.' One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It was on one of the upper shelves, and as the bishop was rather short, he could not reach it. 'Madame Magloire,' said he, 'bring me a chair. My highness cannot reach that shelf.
~ Victor Hugo
It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.
~ Victor Hugo
Questro libro è un dramma in cui il primo personaggio è l'infinito: l'uomo il secondo.
~ Victor Hugo
The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .
~ Victor Hugo
La señora Magloire le llamaba siempre Vuestra Grandeza,un día se levantó de su sillón y fue a la biblioteca a buscar un libro. Estaba éste en una de las tablas más altas del estante, y como el obispo era de corta estatura, no pudo alcanzarlo. Señora Magloire, dijo, traedme una silla, porque mi Grandeza no lo alcanza a esa tabla.
~ Victor Hugo
Enfin, il y a un livre, un livre qui semble d'un bout à l'autre une émanation supérieure, un livre qui est pour l'univers ce que le Koran est pour l'islamisme, ce que les Védas sont pour l'Inde, un livre qui contient toute la sagesse humaine éclairée par toute la sagesse divine, un livre que la vénération des peuples appelle le livre, la Bible !
~ Victor Hugo
architecture is dead, with no ghost to return, killed by the printed book because it did not last as long and cost more.
~ Victor Hugo
Once, however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des Gres.—'I owe five sous,' he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day he had no dinner.
~ Victor Hugo
Mrs. Quisdorf picked that book out for you. That card, though, that's the real gift. It can take you anywhere, Loreda.
~ Kristin Hannah
But if anyone gets a hold of the names…" "They will not," Rémy said firmly. "Who would think to look in this boring, old religious text?" The corners of Père Clément's mouth twitched. "You think this is boring?" He held up the book. "You don't?" Rémy shot back with a grin. Père Clément laughed. "I don't think I should answer that.
~ Kristin Harmel
He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.
~ Kristine Grayson
You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.
~ Laini Taylor