Holgersson Quotes

#1. The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.

Kenzaburo Oe

#2. She didn't fall, but oh, her heart went icy in her chest. She sat down hard upon the steps. Too numb to walk. Her heart was cold and white as chalk.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.

Peter Landesman

#4. Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones.

Tana French

#5. Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

Bill Paxton

#6. I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

Paul Bourget

#7. You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Tony Randall

#8. What's that?" said one of the twins suddenly, pointing at Harry's lightning scar. "Blimey," said the other twin. "Are you - ?" "He is," said the first twin. "Aren't you?" he added to Harry. "What?" said Harry. "Harry Potter," chorused the twins.

J.K. Rowling

#9. The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.

Dan Webster

#10. They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. I can't live without books

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

Andy Warhol

#13. You don't want to argue with me because you don't know how to. None of you do, because you avoid people who think differently,

Anonymous

#14. Who would've guessed that by simply eliminating GMOs from my diet, I could lose 20 pounds, drop my blood pressure by 40 points, and level out my blood sugar levels...all in just 21 days!

Brett Allen