182 Books Quotes & Sayings

I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite. — Sue Monk Kidd

I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand. — Madeleine L'Engle

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right. — Idris Elba

It was time to take action, to change her own story, to take life into her own hands. — Lisa Berne

Just listen Be peace. — Nhat Hanh

Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel. — Bakari Kitwana

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know
because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. — Regina O'Melveny