"Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose."

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Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.462, Pan Macmillan

Jonathan Raban

#Presidential Quotes #Bars Quotes #Prose Quotes

“I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.”
“To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.”
“"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.”
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.”
“I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.”

Source : "Rachel Bilson Lucky Magazine April 2012: I Don’t Like ‘Slutty Dresses’" By Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.
“I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.”

Source : "Zoe Lister-Jones" by Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.
“What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.”

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