Backman Books Quotes

#1. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

George Carlin

#2. If you are not an exception, try to be the example.

Rhythm

#3. Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism
and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to
dehumanize a large group of people, to deny
their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Coretta Scott King

#4. Every man's disease is his personal property.

Alonzo M. Clark

#5. She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

Fredrik Backman

#6. He best is only bought at the cost of great pain ... or so says the legend

Colleen McCullough

#7. Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Wynton Marsalis

#8. Vindication is the privilege of the victorious

Jelle Peters

#9. I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

JWoww

#10. I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

Garth Brooks

#11. My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

Donatella Versace

#12. I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Laurie Anderson

#13. He never understood why she chose him. She loved abstract things like music and books and strange words. Ove was a man filled entirely with tangible things. He liked screwdrivers and oil filters. He went through life with his hands firmly shoved in his pockets. She danced.

Fredrik Backman

#14. The best model of a cat is another cat ... , specially the same cat.

Arturo Rosenblueth

#15. As long as you are feeling discomfort within anything, you're holding yourself in a vibration where all of the things that you have conjured, and all of the things that you have let the Universe know that you want, cannot flow to you.

Esther Hicks

#16. But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It's still a book if you're reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it's in.

Fredrik Backman