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book
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. Carole Bouquet
book reading moving
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
book writing want
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
book shoes marketing
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information? Carol White
book heart telephones
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
book writing
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes
book reality thinking
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
book wife reason
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
book past years
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
judging bangs ends
It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition. Carl Douglas
judging bears dens
See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions. C. S. Lewis
judging judge-me critics
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. Charlotte Bronte
judging people leader
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Charles de Gaulle
judging fancy taste
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. Charles Dickens
judging lawyer chosen
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
judging democracy popularity
Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats. Ricky Gervais
judging people conviction
People will judge you according to your own convictions. Dexter Scott King
judging people fields
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. David Sedaris
competent
The future belongs to the competent Brian Tracy
competent determined stand
She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue, Frank Middleton
competent event form found freak gets hope involved obviously oldest placed prior record result sent since sort stand surprised
Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.
competent critical knew nurture teacher unable understand warm
She is a warm and considerate woman. We knew she would nurture our children. I'm unable to understand why a competent teacher was removed at this critical time. E. B. White
competent experience
She is unquestionably an intelligent person and a competent lawyer. But she's had very little experience in constitutional law. Cass Sunstein
competent fit highly power vacuum
She made it to the top, also because there was a vacuum of power and she was her party's only hope. But she is nevertheless highly competent and fit for the office.
competent discover hope human hurricane katrina led question suffering truth wrong
may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself? Dick Durbin
competent difficult fire john skin thompson
Now that John Thompson is successful, ... I find it very difficult to fire him because the pigmentation in his skin is white. Besides, he's competent and he's my friend. E. P. Thompson
competent composer contribute execute expected function nature performer prepared score simply truly written
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray