Lankov Books Quotes & Sayings

Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but no one says that's all right. Fortunately for my mother, I am alone in this opinion. — Sarah Dessen

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no more books forthcoming from that person. Their future books died with them. In the past I have found a series of books and loved it so much that all I wanted to do was read and read and read those books for the rest of my life. Then I would find out that the author was dead. Had in fact been dead for many a year. This has happened to me several times. — Alison McGhee

Of course these minimum life requirements don't fully address what it means to be alive. For even beyond all the metabolic processes, there was also an intangible essence separating the living from the not. Call it a soul, or just a need we had. Every living thing possessed a certain energy or life-force that infused even the unicellular among us. — Jon Stewart

I saw a play in a black box theatre, and it changed my life. — Geneva Carr

Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference! — Adora Svitak

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you. — Judi Dench

How about a compromise? I'll kill them, and if it turns out they're friendly, I'll apologize. — Rick Riordan

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works. — K. R. Narayanan

Congress: Bingo with billions. — Red Skelton

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that. — John Lurie

There's too much money and too many nice guys around. — John McEnroe

Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. ( ... ) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library. — Andrei Lankov

Act to make your vision a reality. — Debasish Mridha

There are sufficient and suitable accommodations for all the different sorts of persons that are in the world: for great and small, for high and low, rich and poor, wise and unwise, bond and free, persons of all nations and all conditions and circumstances, for those that have been great sinners as well as for moral livers; for weak saints and those that are babes in Christ as well as for those that are stronger and more grown in grace. — Jonathan Edwards