Wobbles Shopkin Quotes & Sayings

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something. — Kenneth Branagh

What did Pandora do with her box after she'd unleashed despair into the world? Did she keep it on her mantel as a reminder of what she'd done? — David Levithan

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was. — Lin Yutang

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form - 'English Socialism', — George Orwell

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me. — Nadine Labaki

I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something. — John Christopher