Heather Brooke Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Halle Berry -
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
J. R. Smith -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
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 -
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 -
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
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card -
I collect books - a lot of books.
Kate Spade -
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion -
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary
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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon -
It's refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.
Josh Malerman -
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof -
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Chris Prentiss -
At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
Kate Christensen -
I like to write books and cause trouble.
Heather Brooke