"Here's what I mean by the miracle of……" — Anthony Doerr
"Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book."
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30 Quotes by Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr has 30 quotes on this site.
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say,…
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my…
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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care…
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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
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Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
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Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new…
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add…
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I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful…
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The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This…
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of…
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So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of…
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
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More Barriers Quotes
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
— Eli Broad
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
— Alton Brown
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The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose…
— Herman Cain
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Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow…
— Herman Cain
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
— Maya Angelou
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
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Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
— Robert Breault
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So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
— Michael Chertoff
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