Sempere Quotes

#1. My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Anna. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my sanctuary, my refuge.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#5. It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

John Scofield

#6. I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Dean Koontz

#7. I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Gary Hume

#8. While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

Kevin Shelley

#9. In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

Linus Roache

#10. Girls can fake orgasms, but boys can fake love.

Daniel Tosh

#11. I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.

Eli Manning

#13. Are you trying to be subtle? Because I know you're talking about the honeybunnyless prom tragedy that is my life.

John Green

#14. I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Richard LaGravenese