Pages Quotes - Page 7

• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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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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• Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue

  Andy Biersack

  Lying, Eye, Blue

  Twitter post from May 27, 2010

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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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• Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

  Beatrice Warde

  People, Design, Personality

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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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• 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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• 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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• I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

  Joe Shuster

  Jobs, Pride, Artist

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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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• Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Discovery, Events

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• Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Writing, Breathing

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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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• If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Book, Writing

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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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• How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

  Jack Heffron

  Easier, Unexamined Life

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books

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• A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

  Leah Cypess

  Girl, Dark, Southern

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• I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Lost, Thousand

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• Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

  Susan Griffin

  Writing, Break Through, Order

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, War, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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• Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Done, Happened

  Alaa Al Aswany (2004). “The Yacoubian Building”, p.192, I.B.Tauris

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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