Pages Quotes - Page 22

• The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  History, Three, Slavery

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

  Nizami Ganjavi

  Life, Book, Writing

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• A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
  act of turning a page.

  John Maeda

  Book, Skills, Pieces

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• To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

  Weegee

  Real, Photographer, Cases

  Weegee (1975). “Naked city”, Da Capo Pr

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• Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that you have died, but I assure you, you have not. You are reaching out for help or you would not have found this page. So red these quotations, allow yourself to feel your pain and cry out your loss and anguish. As you let it go, you will find the strength and courage to put your relationship in perspective and move on.

  Laura Ramirez

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Reading, Night

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• It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Fall, Islamic

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• Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

  Harold Pinter

  Years, Doe, Doing Me

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Sea

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• A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

  Jill Lepore

  Four, Facts, Constitution

  "The Commandments" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.

  Rebecca Mader

  Birthday, Fun, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

  Bruce Davison

  America, Issues, News

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• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Calling

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• Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, Hands, America

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• It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The next page would be People I Have Slept With and then another list. Then the last page would be Famous People I Have Partied With and then another list. Because that's all people write in their autobiographies. Cut out all the bullshit and it's just a three-page pamphlet.

  Ryan Jarman

  Taken, Writing, Cutting

  "The Cribs' Ryan Jarman: 'This is the only job I can do ... McDonald's wouldn't employ me'". Interview With Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Character, Land, Smell

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• Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Book, World, Clubs

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• It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Mathematical Equations, Technique, Algorithms

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• The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

  Lisa McMann

  Writing, Night, White

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• I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Stories, Way, Ridiculous

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

  Barbara Johnson

  Teaching, Reading, Reality

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• Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

  Philip Greenspun

  Collaboration, Saved

  "Interactive Web sites to thrive" by Nancy Weil, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2000.

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• A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

  Michael Piller

  Stars, Adventure, Ideas

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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