Lev Grossman Quotes
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.Lev Grossman
Quotes to Explore
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett -
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
Rand Paul -
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian -
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry -
It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
Maisie Williams
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin -
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
Pamela Stephenson -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
Kangana Ranaut -
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
Sam Smith -
If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel -
The journey matters as much as the goal.
Kalpana Chawla -
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
Earl Weaver -
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells -
One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
Walter Dean Myers
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
Carl Honore -
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Flannery O'Connor -
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
Andrew Motion -
Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
Dalai Lama -
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
Lev Grossman