Storybooks Listening Quotes & Sayings

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me. — Charlotte Church

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo. — Alfred Hermida

And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that lead down to the shattered sidewalk. New York is probably, in this regard at least, the strangest city in the world, so many of its denizens living as they (we) do among the unreconstructed remnants of nineteenth-century sweatshops and tenements, the streets potholed and buckling while right over there, around the corner, is a Chanel boutique. We go shopping amid the rubble, like the world's richest, best-dressed refugees. — Michael Cunningham

I was performing from the age of three. — Jennifer Ellison

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. — Abraham Lincoln

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. — Storm Jameson

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;
... In wit, as nature, what effects our hearts
Is not th'exactness of peculiar parts;
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all. — Alexander Pope

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. — Nelson Mandela

We go hard in the ink! — K'wan

But just because you put on a uniform doesn't mean you hang up your humanity. — Peter Kirby

My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs — Groucho Marx

It says somewhere - in the Book of Proverbs, I think - that lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight. I considered my words carefully before I spoke them. — Alan Bradley