Dawit Nega Quotes & Sayings

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers — Andre Agassi

You could get the words all straight and neat between the lines, but the meaning was in the way they zigzagged toward a person when you gave them life. — Tamara Valentine

Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair. — Virginia Woolf

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. — Elia Kazan

If you find that the reader of popular romances
however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances
goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry. — C.S. Lewis

The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become readers, and the town's library had been the one place, other than church, that we visited every week. — Eleanor Brown

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture. — John Yoo

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. — Aung San Suu Kyi

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient. — Agnes Repplier