Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
Elizabeth McCracken
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
Barry Bostwick
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Hampton Sides
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
Arthur George Gaston
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Oscar Wilde
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Natalie Clifford Barney
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.
Jaime Lerner
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer
At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
Elizabeth McCracken
