I'm not really a fan of quotes, especially in the modern era of social media. I always start to wonder about the context in which they first appeared, whether they are being properly presented and attributed, and the motives of the person presenting the text. There just isn't enough time to properly investigate each one.

That being said this book had immediate appeal with its strong unifying theme and a citations page.

A thin book of the gift variety, it's a quick read, with each spread having a very short biography on the left and an illustrated quote on the right. It's very easy though to get sucked into randomly flipping back through the book and dwelling on different pages.

The images are well-done and quite striking, hand drawn (I'm guessing) from photo references that can usually be found pretty easily near the top of a simple Google Images search for each of the subjects. ( )