Sabaa Tahir I’ve loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. – Sabaa Tahir College Quotes Discovered Quotes Fiction Quotes Girl Quotes Hooked Quotes Loved Quotes Mountaineering Quotes Mountains Quotes What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her ‘Why Not Me?’ when I’ve had a particularly rough day. Her hilarious observations and anecdotes never fail to cheer me up. For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After the 10th time this happened, I moved most of the books to a shelf in the spare room. Now, my nightstand is sort of like a bookish country club. And not all books get in.
Marcus AureliusTime Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. – Marcus Aurelius
ImaginationMichael Apted It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. – Michael Apted
Donald Faison We’ve been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But there’s so many things in the supermarket, there’s so many things on television that automatically, when you turn it on, are saying, ‘Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy!’ – Donald Faison
Brian Ferneyhough It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. – Brian Ferneyhough
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