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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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton
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
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
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
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
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
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
Alexei Sayle
Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
Owen Chamberlain
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
E. B. White
I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.
Billy Joel
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.
Danielle Trussoni
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