Lowenthal Abrams Quotes

#1. Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will

Bell Hooks

#2. What I have in ample supply here is children who've lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones.

Khaled Hosseini

#3. When it reached him, the dog settled on its belly, then rolled onto its back with all four legs in the air, making itself vulnerable. It gave him a look that was full of love, trust, and a little fear. Crazily,

Dean Koontz

#4. No need to try to explain to others what's in your heart. Some things are just between you and God.

Karen Gibbs

#5. I could see jabs from his flashlight cutting into the woods on either side of me. He was back there, somewhere. The light beam was like a knife and I didn't want it on my back.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Kathryn Bigelow

#7. Vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

Peter M. Senge

#8. A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.

Ryan Lilly

#9. I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

Felix Baumgartner

#10. Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Pete Waterman

#11. Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Jacob Lew

#12. I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

#14. Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#15. I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Alan Shearer