Nat Hentoff Quotes
Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".Nat Hentoff
Quotes to Explore
-
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling -
I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
Zach Woods -
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Oscar Wilde -
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
-
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
Sadie Jones -
I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
Nancy Roman -
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell -
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More -
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
Earl Butz
-
Books are still my favorite present.
Karen Robards -
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 -
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Warren E. Burger -
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
-
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
Charles Dickens -
Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
Asif Ali Zardari -
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell -
Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
Nat Hentoff