Mortimer Adler Quotes
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
Kate Braverman
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
Jacob Batalon
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
Vidya Balan
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
Vikram Seth
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
Randal Kleiser
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.
Napoleon Hill
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Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.
Janet Fitch
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Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.
Madeleine de Souvre
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler