"I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected."

-- Harper Lee

#Encouragement Quotes #Book Quotes #Hands Quotes

“We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.”
“Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.”

Source : Attributed in "That ye might have life" by Sterling W. Sill Benson, (p. 274), 1974.
“The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.”
“I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.”
“The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime”
“During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic dÃ©marche.”
“The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.”

Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.119

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