"Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Appreciation Quotes #Book Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes

“Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.”

Source : "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.
“They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.”
“Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.”
“Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”
“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”
“I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.”

Source : "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.
“We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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