Details Quote by Carl Clinton Van Doren

“lifers” who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective”

— Dan Brown

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

— Anonymous

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

There is actually so much to learn from people who lived, so inspiring to know what they thought or what were their world-views. Their…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I'm very interested in imbuing meaning, and emotion and thought into things that people might overlook as a way of showing them something that…

— Julio Torres

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

— Denis Dutton

Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have lived hundreds…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them." From: The…

— Mark Danielewski

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own,…

— George F. Kennan

“I have gathered and analyzed thousands of case studies that I call play histories. I have found that remembering what play is all about…

— Stuart Brown

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who…

— Charlotte Bronte