2016 Book Releases Quotes

#1. When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

Kim Wilde

#2. The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Michael Gurian

#3. While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Scorsese master class at BAFTA in Piccadilly: fancy, but technically still 'the flicks'.

Asif Kapadia

#4. With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.

Jack Canfield

#5. Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake.

Jim Davidson

#6. I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

M.F.K. Fisher

#7. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

Gavriel Savit

#8. Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.

Jacob Zuma

#9. Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.

Allan Holdsworth

#10. The next day,' I'd conclude, 'when we'd returned safely to base camp, ice flowers had formed on the newly frozen sea, sculptured blooms like those waxen wreaths in the cemeteries of home.

Beryl Bainbridge

#11. (S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop.
- Ruth

Carol Matas