Yefets Beach Quotes & Sayings

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

To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift — Sunday Adelaja

Surround yourself with people smarter than you. — Maggie Wilderotter

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce. — Ion Tiriac

And on cold wintry nights she loves listening to Elvis croon "Are you lonesome tonight?" just as I do. — Avijeet Das

She'd listened to a lot of these utopian discussions, and it was somehow comforting that Stephen and his friends could never quite work all the kinks out of their plan; that the world was as obstinately unfixable as her life was. — Jonathan Franzen

As soon as your fear was over
and it was not fear for what threatened me, but for what might happen to you
when the whole thing was past, as far as you were concerned it was exactly as if nothing at all had happened. Exactly as before, I was your little skylark, your doll, which you would in future treat with doubly gentle care, because it was so brittle and fragile. — Henrik Ibsen

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists. — Mike Nichols

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional. — Emma Thompson

Trained hawks have a peculiar ability to conjure history because they are in a sense immortal. While individual hawks of different species die, the species themselves remain unchanged. There are no breed or varieties, because hawks were never domesticated. The birds we fly today are identical to those of five thousand years ago. Civilisations rise and fall, but hawks stay the same. This gives falconry birds the ability to feel like relics from the distant past. You take a hawk onto your fist. You imagine the falconer of the past doing the same. It is hard not to feel it is the same hawk. — Helen Macdonald

I guess when you're a drama teacher, you're used to memorizing long speeches. — James Patterson

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word. — Elie Wiesel