Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert Quotes

#1. Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.

Oscar De La Renta

#3. Like the children of Thor? At least their dad had a movie franchise.

Rick Riordan

#4. Read. It makes you more intelligent. It's that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

Ethan Hawke

#5. You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I'm holding a whole stack of their CDs. Harper

Joe Hill

#6. Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#7. Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

Eddie Marsan

#9. An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Peter Straub

#10. Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself.

H. Ernest Hunt

#11. I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is.

Donna Tartt

#12. I am not especially unsophisticated about people, and yet I am so inclined to idealize and idolize the few that I am really attached to. I should know better...

Harry Haskell