Alzira Peirce Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. It's in reading that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book becomes one of a million different books[ ... ] — Mohsin Hamid

It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less. — Timothy Garton Ash

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not! — Dr. Seuss

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. — James Martineau

Instead, he let his gaze move slowly over Daniel's body. "I've got no reason to be jealous. But I would be if I were him." "Why?" "Because there isn't anything I don't want to do to you, Danny." Trey swung into the car and shut the door. — K.A. Mitchell

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. — Amos Bronson Alcott

What's more, your body also must be accelerated forward with every stride because it loses momentum upon each foot landing. The — Matt Fitzgerald

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again. — Veronica Roth

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you
and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie

I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves. — Andy Serkis