Rackman Center Quotes & Sayings

With the grace of hopeful heart, you can overcome emotional shocks. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. — Oprah Winfrey

You say that you don't care about age and that you're ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure? — Edmund White

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?' — Gary Ross

What Proust is describing is an act of self-discovery on the part of his reader. Immersing herself in Proust, the reader may encounter aspects of herself that, while they have perhaps been in existence for a long time, have remained unnamed, undescribed, and therefore in a certain sense unknown. One might say that the reader learns the language of herself — Mark Edmundson

I want to manufacture a feud. — Rob Corddry

The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead. — Suzanne Collins

Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues. — Frank W. Abagnale

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again. — Leonard Ravenhill

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters. — Richard Marquand