Alberto Manguel Quotes
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
-
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
-
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
-
I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
-
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
-
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
-
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
-
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
-
I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
-
I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
-
The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
-
I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
-
It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
-
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
-
The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
-
The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
-
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
-
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
-
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
-
The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
-
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
-
The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.
-
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
