"Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers."

-- Leah Price

#Book Quotes #Giants Quotes #Shoulders Quotes

“I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.”
“A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.”
“You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.”
“I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.”
“There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.”

Source : Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.30, Da Capo Press
“You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.”
“It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.”

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