Chapters Quotes

• Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Littles
  • Seems
  • Chapters

• With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Program
  • Finish
  • Novels

• The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).

  

  David Plotz
  • Character
  • Book
  • Reading

• It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Book
  • Christ
  • Realizing

• I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Reach
  • Elementary
  • Borrower

• The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

  

  Mike Honda
  • Needs
  • Awareness
  • Shameful

• When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • History
  • Japanese
  • Relevant

• We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Writing
  • Language
  • Needs

• It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Development
  • Followers

• The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

  

  Tony Hillerman
  • Writing
  • Chapters

• I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

  

  Stuart Woods
  • Writing
  • Couple
  • Needs

• Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

  

  David D. Friedman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Libertarian

• I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Terms

• You can't start the next chapter of your life

  

  Michael McMillian
  • Moving
  • Beginning
  • Letting

• Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!

  

  Brian Falkner
  • Life
  • Book
  • Chapters

• The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Book
  • Chapters
  • Quotations

• I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Book
  • Philosophy

• What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Philosophy
  • Term

• Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Embrace
  • Chapters

• Daniel Geale is the next chapter in my career. After I get through him, I can talk about what comes next.

  

  Miguel Cotto
  • Careers
  • Chapters

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