Emily Rodda Quotes
A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
Quotes to Explore
-
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
-
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
-
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
-
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
-
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
-
The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
-
I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
-
When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
-
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
-
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
-
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
-
I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
-
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
-
No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
-
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
-
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
-
One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
-
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
-
The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
-
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
-
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.
-
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
-
A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
