Tawni O'Dell Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
I've never met anyone that is their image.
Macy Gray -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret -
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park -
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
J.P. Rangaswami -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Octavio Paz -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley -
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel -
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf -
My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
Nadia Comaneci
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel Munthe -
Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.
Carl Eckart -
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.
Beat Streuli -
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
Blaise Pascal -
I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.
Zach Braff -
The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
Tawni O'Dell