Wendy Lesser Quotes

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Eye
  • Tradition
  • Jews

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Theater

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Energy
  • Ugly
  • Economic

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Up
  • Guy
  • New

• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Gun
  • Taking
  • Bought

• There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • World
  • God

• You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • You
  • Chance

• I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Life
  • Romantic
  • Confident

• Everybody has the Tupac that they admire. Certain people love the hip-hop person, the rapper. Strictly just the rapper. A lot of people, the newfound Tupac fans... they're into Death Row-era Tupac. But that was only nine months!

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • People
  • Death

• You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

  

  Amy Chua
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

  

  David Cameron
  • Work
  • Job

• I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good on them! Natural beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes, but if you think surgery would right something you have a problem with, then why shouldn't you do it?

  

  Louise Nurding
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • World
  • Great
  • Study

• Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Literature