Douglas Henshall I read Ann Cleeves’s books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting. – Douglas Henshall Ann Quotes Books Quotes Cleevess Quotes Paints Quotes Read Quotes Shetland Quotes It’s one of those weird things you start doing: you get to have on-screen teenage children and play policemen. That’s what happens to you when you hit 40. I wanted a jumper. After all, in Shetland you are in the land of the Fair Isle sweater. But then everyone said to avoid that – Sarah Lund has cornered the jumper market.
EasterJay Parini Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear. – Jay Parini
Rocky Fielding I went to Madison Square Garden and saw a basketball game. I said, ‘Imagine fighting here.’ – Rocky Fielding
William O DouglasWisdom We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. – William O Douglas
Leland Ryken My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text. – Leland Ryken
Michael Pitt I’m a closeted nerd. I studied Richard Dawkins. I watched every lecture. He’s sort of the leading scientific atheist of our time. He’s very provocative. His whole thing is science over spirituality. – Michael Pitt
Anna Todd I’m not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I’m writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood. – Anna Todd
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