Random House Webster's Quotationary - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448500 ISBN 13: 9780679448501

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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Organizes by subject over twenty thousand quotations ranging from familiar sayings and poetry to the comments of current political and literary figures

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<b>Leonard Roy Frank</b> has been compiling and organizing quotes, aphorisms, and observations for the past 12 years. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has lived in San Francisco since 1959, where he managed an art gallery before devoting himself to collecting quotations. To date, his database contains more than 40,000 quotes.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

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prehensive and user-friendly quotation book available, <b>Random House Webster's Quotationary</b>offers quote collectors, speech writers, students, and researchers the newest and freshest collection of quotations from around the world. <br><br>More than 20,000 infamous, interesting, and informative quotes are arranged by subject for easy look-up. Whether you need a word of wisdom about technology or a witticism on writing, the right quote is at your fingertips. With extensive cross-referencing and clear indexing by author, the Quotationary is easier to use than other books of quotations. <br><br>The Quotationary features a completely original selection of quotes, from favorite sayings and classic poems to cutting-edge commentary from today's personalities, such as Oprah Winfrey and Ted Turner.<br><br><b>Comprehensive:</b> This collection features over 20,000 quotations, including many from contemporary writers, politicians, celebrities, and other quotable figures.<br>&

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Ted Turner on perfection:
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

R. Buckminster Fuller on technology:
How do we know that the people we meet are not computers programmed to simulate people?

Louis A. Safian on money:
There are more important things than money--the only trouble is they all cost money.

Emily Dickinson on love:
That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.

Casey Stengel on time:
There's a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

Charlotte Whitton on women:
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679448500
• ISBN 13: 9780679448501
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1039
• Herausgeber: Frank Leonard Roy
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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