Nancy Pearl Quotes

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

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• Quakers are terrific.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Terrific
  • Quakers

• It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Mind
  • Innovation
  • Terrific

• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Persons
  • Surveillance

• The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

  

  F. Ross Johnson
  • Lawyer
  • Coffins

• It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Book
  • Connection
  • Connections

• As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

  

  D.T. Max
  • Explanation
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  • Narrators

• Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO

  

  Zachary Lazar
  • Nice
  • Peculiar
  • Narrators

• Give Villanova credit, they're a terrific team. They (made) some big-time plays.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Team
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  • Villanova

• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Speech
  • Factors
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• The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Exercise
  • Walking
  • Behinds

• A shortage of coffins was one thing, but then London began running out of graves.

  

  Catharine Arnold
  • London
  • Graves
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• The potential for these way stations is just terrific.

  

  Chip Taylor
  • Potential
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  • Stations

• His defense and rebounding have been terrific. I've never seen him rebound the way he has during this stretch.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Defense
  • Stretch
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• My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

  

  Geraldine Stutz
  • Talent
  • Atmosphere
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• I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

  

  William McKeen
  • Book
  • Stories
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• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Design
  • Personality
  • Eccentric

• There were no allegations, insinuations, indications of concern

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Allegations
  • Indications
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• Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Food
  • Personality
  • Human Beings

• I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• And no business can possibly equate happy workers community with profit effectiveness. Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Business
  • Workers community
  • Profit effectiveness

• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Song
  • Optimistic
  • Hopeless

• Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

  

  Nancy Pearl
  • Terrific
  • Coffins
  • Narrators