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?

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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

• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• 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

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• 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'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Actor

• 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

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • Try

• 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

• Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Girl

• 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

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Work
  • Control

• Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • History
  • Hand

• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hand
  • Virtue
  • Royal

• 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