Ernie Harwell Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy -
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
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Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour -
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
Hailee Steinfeld -
I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
Salman Rushdie -
Books are still my favorite present.
Karen Robards -
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman -
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone -
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary -
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
Yunus Emre -
Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
Daniel Shipley
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate -
Some one, I think it was Isaac Disraeli, said that he who did not make himself acquainted with the best thoughts of the greatest writers would one day be mortified to observe that his best thoughts are their indifferent ones, and it is from the great books that have stood the test of time that we shall get, not only the most lasting pleasure, but a standard by which to measure our own thoughts, the thoughts of others, and the excellence of the literature of our own day.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon -
You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.
John Ruskin -
There are no fixed points in space.
Merce Cunningham -
Some fundamentalists go so far as to reject psychology as a disciplined study, which is unfortunate and polarizing. By definition, psychology is the study of the soul, theology is the study of God. Generally speaking, systematic theology is a study of all the essential doctrines of faith, and that would include the study of our souls (psychology).
Neil T Anderson -
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
Ernie Harwell