Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
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In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting,… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing… — Margaret Lee Runbeck Copy Share Image
It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
In the pre-Internet age you had to find gay things - or things that were slightly radioactive with erotic interest. You had… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
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I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image