"Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?"

--

Source : Michael Gruber (2009). “The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

Michael Gruber

#Does It Matter Quotes #Stills Quotes #Still Life Quotes

“I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!”
“It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.”
“A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.”
“I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.”
“When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.”
“I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.”
“True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.”

Source : Georg Ebers (1895). “Cleopatra (Complete)”, p.179, Library of Alexandria
“I am a student of whoever I can learn from.”

You may also like:

A. Edward Newton
Author
Anselm of Canterbury
Saint
Arnon Grunberg
Writer
Ernest Gruening
Former United States Senator
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Author
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Author
Paul Christopher
Author
Rolf Jacobsen
Writer
Sara Gruen
Author