Tawni O'Dell Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
I've never met anyone that is their image.
Macy Gray -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret -
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park -
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
J.P. Rangaswami -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Octavio Paz -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley -
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel -
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf -
My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
Nadia Comaneci
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Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy -
Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
Laura Moser -
The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.
Samuel Horsley -
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf -
The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
Tawni O'Dell