June 24 Quotes

#1. When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. (Photo by Edwin Bonde, June 24, 1945, courtesy Alan Bonde)

Flint Whitlock

#3. There is always a best way of doing everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.

Laura Owens

#5. We're all what we read to a very considerable degree. So

David McCullough

#6. My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Busy Philipps

#7. I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died...

Lucinda Riley

#8. 'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Cathleen Schine

#9. I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go ...

Carmen DeSousa

#10. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. 18 "There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him.

Anonymous

#11. The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.

Mathieu Amalric

#12. Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

Rumi

#13. All authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

Abraham Kuyper

#14. Love is the greatest gift, we can give to each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Liam Neeson