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

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Edward Halifax

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Granth Sahib

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evans

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Charles Spurgeon

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Albert Schweitzer

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

E. Helm

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

Dustie Robertson

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

Denholm Elliott

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Dean Ornish

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.