Febs Impact Quotes

#1. One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

David Anthony Durham

#2. The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud - it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

Mem Fox

#3. I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Laura Riding

#4. A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

Mark Zandi

#5. I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

Jennifer Sky

#6. Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare

#7. Like so many nice people who seek power, I wanted to force everyone else to be nice. It's called totalitarianism.

Maajid Nawaz

#8. You're saying the gods don't have free will."
"The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.

Lev Grossman

#9. I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

Romesh Gunesekera