Verbing Words Quotes & Sayings

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. — Mohsin Hamid

Technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced. These two processes lead to a tremendous shattering of tradition which is the obverse of the contemporary crisis and renewal of mankind. — Walter Benjamin

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has. — Omar Sharif

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. — Katherine Paterson

I am the punishment of God ... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. — Genghis Khan

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person. — Eric Hoffer

Dead people never stop talking. — Marlon James

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours. — Nora Roberts

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. — Blaise Pascal

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it. — Joe R. Lansdale

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs. — Kristin Hannah

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences. — Samuel I. Prime

Love Rocks The De La Cruz's World — P.T. Macias

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam ... — J.G. Ballard

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy. — Haile Gebrselassie