Siegman Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read — Stephen King

while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place. — Henry T. Blackaby

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck. — Haruki Murakami

For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. — Nancy Atwell

All this belongs to the language of ghosts. There are many other possible kinds of talks in this language. Most of them begin when one person says to another: I wish. What they wish for might be anything at all, as long as it is something that cannot happen. I wish the sun would never set. I wish money would grow in my pockets. I wish the city would be like it was in the old days. You get the idea. — Paul Auster

She walked home', explained Sir Roland. 'We were walking home, weren't we? Very well, then. She walked home. Passed Lethbridge's house. Went in. Hit him on the head with the poker. Came out. Met us in the street. There you are. Plain as a pikestaff.'
'Well, I don't know,' said the Viscount. 'Seems queer to me. — Georgette Heyer

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal. — Kesha

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me. — Elizabeth Olsen

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. — Edwin Land

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky. — Colin Hay

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway. — William Zinsser