"Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book."

-- Anthony Doerr

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Fall Quotes

“There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.”
“In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.”
“Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans”

Source : FaceBook post by Ben Shapiro from Jan 14, 2013
“I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.”
“In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedomwhen people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.”
“Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.”

Source : "Holliday Grainger Interview THE BORGIAS; Updates on BEL AMI and JANE EYRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.
“Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.424
“We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.”

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