Pennac Book Quotes

#1. Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time

Will Ferrell

#2. A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

Daniel Pennac

#3. I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

Huey Newton

#4. I watched my parents. My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school. I always felt that I couldn't let them down. And I had a natural discipline from early on. I was always training for something.

Jennifer Lopez

#5. Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Carolyn Wells

#6. We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.

Carrie Jones

#7. What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

Sinead O'Connor

#8. Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself - of having to take something from someone else.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. He was an echo chamber for all books, the physical incarnation of words, the book made human.

Daniel Pennac

#12. It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

Chali 2na