Connerton Quotes & Sayings

If it was scandalous for girls in the 1960s to wear pants to school, what else will we look back on & shake our heads at? What else can't we see in the future? And at that, what else can we dream up? — Lisa Factora-Borchers

Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning the pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty. — J.K. Rowling

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do. — Khaled Hosseini

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America? — Adam Baldwin

What is that old children's rhyme, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me'? Anyone who says that doesn't understand the power of words. They can cut deeper than any knife, hit harder than any fist, touch parts of you that nothing physical will ever reach, and the wounds that some words leave never heal, because each time the word is thrown at you, labeled on you, you bleed afresh from it. It's more like a whip that cuts every time, until you feel it must flay the very skin from your bones, and yet outwardly there is no wound to show the world, so they think you are not hurt, when inside part of you dies every time. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore. — Tom Berenger

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. — Arthur Eddington

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. — Samuel Johnson

She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated. — Bette Lee Crosby

I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired. — Paul Dano

To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem. — Tom Bowman

I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck with it. — Linda Kozlowski

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think. — Jim Butcher

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages. — Richard Mitchell