John Thackara Quotes

#1. Writing has never been that simple for me.

Pat Conroy

#2. A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question; it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.

John Dewey

#3. Seeing kilted warriors flow into the hall and hearing their deep masculine laughs made Ravenna feel like her breath was cut off. These men were a massive, self-confident bunch.

Victoria Roberts

#4. A bruising love where every pat was just this side of a slap. The love one has for something always beneath you.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

Michael Gungor

#6. I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

Nora Ephron

#7. I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

Olivier Theyskens

#8. If human love hath power to penetrate the veil
and hath it not?
then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman

Voltaire

#10. Minnie Spotted Wolf from Butte, Montana, was the first Native American to enlist in the Marine Corps Womens' Reserve. Spotted Wolf joined in 1943. She commented that Marine Corps boot camp was "hard, but not that hard.

Tom Holm

#11. She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

Imre Kertesz