„[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.“

„O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!“

—  Virginia Woolf, buch The Waves

Quelle: The Waves

„As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.“

—  Mick Jagger British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones 1943

„The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.“

—  Rachel Gibson American writer 1961

„So little is said about the scholarship boy in pages and pages of educational literature. Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents.“

—  Richard Rodríguez American journalist and essayist 1944

„(introduction) This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.“

—  Maddox American internet writer 1978

The Best Page In The Universe. http://maddox.xmission.com/
The Best Page in the Universe

„Wiki has a feel of brainstorming, though it's not as interactive. You can do 10 minutes of brainstorming, and 30 minutes of analysis of the product of that brainstorming, and have something in 45 minutes. The pace on wiki is slower. You could write a page about an idea, or maybe a page about a bunch of ideas. Then you could come back in a week and see what's developed on that page.“

—  Ward Cunningham American computer programmer who developed the first wiki 1949

Exploring with Wiki

„Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.“

—  Immanuel Kant, buch Critique of Pure Reason

A xix
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

„Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.“

—  Sherman Alexie Native American author and filmmaker 1966

„Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.“

—  Brad Paisley American country music singer 1972

„I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.“

—  Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

Variante: You can fix anything but a blank page.

„Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)“

—  Hippocrates ancient Greek physician -460 - -370 v.Chr

Decorum

„In great organizations, a leader’s words and actions model what really matters, and as a result, everyone gets on the same page and pulls together.“

—  Don Soderquist 1934 - 2016

Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 26.
On the Importance of Culture

„This is my little disquisition about football: the quarterback, the center, and the towel. Page 116“

—  Renata Adler American author, journalist and film critic 1938

Pitch Dark (1983)

„(about Math) Too many little numbers on one page!“

—  Daniel Radcliffe English actor 1989

http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html

„At about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. They made a good impression on me, which Gandhi himself at that time did not.“

—  George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950

Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

„We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.“

—  Charlaine Harris, buch Dead Reckoning

Quelle: Dead Reckoning

„It would be foolhardy to swell the pages of this book with an exhaustive list of Greco-Hebrew differences. Everyone knows that Homer is very different from the Bible.“

—  Cyrus H. Gordon American linguist 1908 - 2001

Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

„Translation: In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.“

—  Pierre-Jean de Béranger French poet and chansonnier 1780 - 1857

Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,
Goddam! j'aime les anglais.
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 222.

„She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.“

—  Markus Zusak, buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief