Bibliophile Wisdom Quotes

#1. Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Anna Wintour

#2. I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

Sheryl Swoopes

#3. It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Robin Morgan

#4. Expectations define achievement.

Debasish Mridha

#5. You are God's image.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

Frances Power Cobbe

#8. Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.

Marshall Curry

#9. There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your lessons into a magical piece of work that will help someone else's heartache.

Nikki Rowe

#10. Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

B.C. Forbes

#11. Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.

Rachel Joyce