Bbc Books Quotes

#1. The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

Conan O'Brien

#2. Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

Raini Rodriguez

#3. Forgiveness is an act of giving; it is an act of love.

Debasish Mridha

#4. My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.

Tom Paulin

#5. Let's focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

Gary Cole

#6. One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Elizabeth Aston

#7. Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Rick Warren

#8. It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

Mariella Frostrup

#9. When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Frank Butler

#10. Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Like a flight simulator, fiction projects us into intense simulations of problems that run parallel to those we face in reality. And like a flight simulator, the main virtue of fiction is that we have a rich experience and don't die at the end.

Jonathan Gottschall

#12. I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

Stacy Barthe

#13. I was always taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And I'm a firm believer in that.

Jeff Jarrett

#14. The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.

Tessa Jowell

#16. And what she wanted more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - differences in size and race and belief ...

Ursula Hegi

#17. Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie