Shelfari Books Quotes & Sayings

The sole duty of a man is to love his Maker with all his soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. — Anika Noni Rose

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is. — Tom Cavanagh

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public. — Giacomo Puccini

We build walls to protect ourselves from the hurt and pain. But someday you will realize that you are alone, in your own prison. — S.C. Rhyne

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem. — Antonio J. Mendez

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. — Sebastian Pinera

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe. — Tanya Huff

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given
something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt. — Paulo Freire

The wind picked up. The power went out. The windows rattled. I took an Ambien and curled into a ball and tried to hide from the dark and the wind in the bed that had been ours, the first bed I'd ever shared with someone who loved me and picked me and then changed his mind. — Lindy West

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. — George Edward Woodberry

The materials shape your idea. — Erik Spiekermann