Alberto Manguel Quotes

Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?

Alberto Manguel

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• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Never
  • Left
  • Until

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Society
  • Genius
  • Dress

• I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Health

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

  Dan Millman
  • God
  • Money
  • Energy

• I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Said

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Best
  • Confidence

• I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • People

• We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Long
  • Women
  • Imagination

• I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6 years old. My mom actually got me started in it.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Mom
  • Football

• There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• Morley put his hand over his heart and bowed from the waist, a gesture that somehow reminded Claire of Myrnin. It reminded her she missed him, too, which was just wrong. She should not be missing Morganville, or anyone in it. Especially not the crazy boss vampire who’d put fang marks in her neck that would never, ever go away. She was doomed to high-necked shirts because of him. But she did miss him.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • Crazy

• Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Eyes
  • Hand
  • Text