Hillenbrand Books Quotes & Sayings

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. — Laura Hillenbrand

In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time. — George Grosz

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences. — John Herschel

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting. — Frances Stark

When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that. — Alison Owen

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't. — Lenore Skenazy

For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves. — William Wordsworth

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. — Laura Hillenbrand

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that. — Dada Bhagwan

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard. — Kate Atkinson

C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said. — Gayle Forman