Zdzislawa Bytnarowa Quotes & Sayings

A story wearing another dress every time you hear it - what could be better? A story that grows and puts out flowers like a living thing! But look at the stories people press in books! They may last longer, yes, but they breathe only when someone opens the book. They are sound pressed between the pages, and only a voice can bring them back to life! Then they throw off sparks, Balbulus! Then they go free as birds flying out into the world. Perhaps you're right, and the paper makes them immortal. But why should I care? Will I live on, neatly pressed between the pages with my words? Nonsense! We're none of us immortal; even the finest words don't change that, do they? — Cornelia Funke

All that are upright are not equally fitted for the work, and many that are learned, judicious, and more able to teach the riper sort, are yet less able to condescend to the ignorant, and so convincingly and fervently to rouse up the secure, as some that are below them in other qualifications; and many that are able in both respects, have a barren people; and the ablest have found by experience that God hath sometimes blessed the labours of a stranger to that which their own hath not done. — Richard Baxter

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically. — Jon Richardson

No fox is foxier than man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. — George Sand

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. — Callie Khouri

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once. — Glenn Haybittle

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening. — Jesse Ventura

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener. — Wilfrid Sheed

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. — Aesop

My favorite wines are Zinfandels. — Thomas Keller

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well. — Sendhil Mullainathan