Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Oprah Winfrey

Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Eytan Rockaway

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Alexandra Fuller

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Bonnie Tyler

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.

Christopher Nolan

I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.

Patrick Carman

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Alan Ball

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

David Tennant

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Dick Van Dyke

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Elbert Hubbard

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Edwina Currie

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

Ed Parker

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Elinor Ostrom

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

Dixie Lee Ray

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..