Gerald Graff Quotes & Sayings

My dream ... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person. — Martha Stewart

Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks. — Mary Antin

Your brain secretly wants that song, because it's so familiar to everything else you've already heard and liked. It just sounds right." There is evidence that a preference for things that sound "familiar" is a product of our neurology. — Charles Duhigg

It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore. — Sarah Dessen

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines. — Aldo Leopold

security - the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable - was illusory and even dangerous. — Theodore Dalrymple

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. — Horace Walpole

Who's Matthews?" Zack asked.
"The tall blond one you keep calling Junior," Anthony said. "Stop doing that, by the way. It annoys him. Anyway, he's young, strong, and he's got 20/20 vision. Happy?"
"No." Zack searched for a good reason why. "He's young. He's new. He doesn't know..."
"Great," Anthony said, a savage edge creeping into his voice. "You want somebody not too old, not too young, who knows. That leaves us with a middle-aged cop with experience. The only one of those is you. Are you volunteering? — Jennifer Crusie

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us. — Nicholas G. Carr

There's a great maze of tunnels, a Labyrinth. It's like a great dark city, under the hill. Full of gold, and the swords of old heroes, and old crowns, and bones, and years, and silence.'
She spoke if in trance, rapture. Manan watched her. His slabby face never expressed much but stolid, careful sadness; it was sadder than usual now. 'Well, and you're mistress of all that,' he said. 'The silence, and the dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. — Hans Hofmann

I love any opportunity I have to make music. — Barry Manilow