Nick Hornby If it’s not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book. – Nick Hornby Book Quotes Gripping Quotes Reading Quotes Wrong Quotes I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of ‘Macbeth’ or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn’t get any of that. When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.
Dean Potter I got Whisper when she was a little puppy and I hated leaving her at home, because I would go on these six-to-eight-hour hikes – I would BASE jump every day, and I’d have to leave her behind. – Dean Potter
Anna Deavere Smith Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud. – Anna Deavere Smith
Ivan Pavlov Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. – Ivan Pavlov
Edie Campbell It’s very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, ‘I do yoga.’ Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move – particularly if you’re doing dressage. – Edie Campbell
Jean Rostand It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. – Jean Rostand
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