Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell -
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson -
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
Patricia Cornwell
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I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
Valerie Azlynn -
Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
R. L. Stine -
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
Paloma Faith -
I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Candice Patton -
I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
Oliver Reed -
Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
Laird Barron
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I don't read a lot of books.
Usain Bolt -
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone -
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde -
I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein -
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon
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We're doing what we want to do. Basically it's just down to the fact that we're all posers. We all want to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and have all the girls looking at our bollocks. That's us. We like showing off, we're arrogant bastards, it's just like ... over the top.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
Alfonso X of Castile -
What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.
Brian Morton -
I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.
Mac DeMarco -
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx -
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof