Nicholas A. Basbanes Quotes

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

Nicholas A. Basbanes

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• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Religion
  • Masses
  • Opium

• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Words

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Life
  • Country
  • Like

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Game

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Career
  • Want

• A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Story
  • Three
  • Shots

• I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Believe
  • Tree

• I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Time
  • Attention

• 'Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Family
  • Help
  • Environment

• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Live
  • Children
  • Character

• I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.

  

  George Ezra
  • People
  • Up
  • Picture

• Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Live
  • Friendship
  • Ceremony

• These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.

  

  Jackson Browne

• The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

  

  Nicholas A. Basbanes
  • Character
  • Book
  • Passion