Daniells Archbald Quotes & Sayings

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. — Clifton Fadiman

Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two. — Michael Gove

It's them as should be sorry! I knew yeh weren't gettin' yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know abou' Hogwarts, fer cryin' out loud! Did yeh never wonder where yer parents learned it all?" "All what?" asked Harry. "ALL WHAT?" Hagrid thundered. "Now wait jus' one second! — J.K. Rowling

So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. — Anne Frank

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. — Alan Rickman

While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time. — Chris Hadfield

The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure. — Matthew Donnelly

Does a mirror preserve everything that has been reflected in it? Is there a record of light, thin membranes compressed layer upon layer that one has to ease apart with the finger-tips so that the colors don't dissipate, so that the moments don't blot and the hours don't run together into inconsequential splotches? So that a song of preserved years lies in your palm, a miniature of your life and times, with every detail meticulous in clear, chanting angel-fine enamel, as on the old manuscripts, at which you can peer through a magnifying glass and marvel at so much effort? So many tears for nothing? For light? For bygone moments? — Marlene Van Niekerk

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism. — Courtney Love

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry. — Will Smith