Almina Taner Quotes & Sayings

The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else. — Lucy Dillon

Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man. — Salman Rushdie

By Real Acting I mean an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans. — Tina Fey

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'. — Orson Scott Card

Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ... — Alice B. Toklas

Social media is not a fad because it's human. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful ... — Barbara De Angelis

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. — Stephen Breyer

There are two lessons here: First, weather, climate, and climate change matter - but not nearly as much as they used to, thanks to technology. Climate livability is not just a matter of the state of the global climate system, but also of the technology (or lack thereof) that we have available to deal with any given climate. Second, having that technology is useless unless we have the energy to run it. — Alex J. Epstein

He heard it from Pierce. — Colleen Masters