Notting Hill Bookshop Quotes & Sayings

I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English. — William Golding

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it. — Swami Vivekananda

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it. — Jason Aldean

Trust me if there will be any heaven after life; I am sure we humans are going to fuck it too. — M.F. Moonzajer

The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day. — Sheena Iyengar

Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness. — Vann Chow

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers. — Richard Feynman

Festus, you're such a great listener. — Maria Kanellis

Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust. — Edward McKendree Bounds