Lavi Bookman Quotes

#1. Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Mason Cooley

#3. The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

David Cronenberg

#4. We are all souls walking on the earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Teachers can outdrink anyone.

Dana Bowman

#6. The man has more masks than a whole troupe of Italian players.

Sarah Zettel

#7. We might say that a technology is to a medium as the brain is to the mind.

Neil Postman

#8. We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic.

John Ortberg

#9. She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.

Henry James

#10. I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Jean Kerr

#11. Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Sappho

#12. A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

Dieter Appelt

#13. I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Germaine Greer

#14. Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

Gloria Steinem

#15. The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.

John Updike