Shutting The Book Quotes

#1. But, he realised, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.

George Orwell

#2. If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it's really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

J.M. Ledgard

#3. In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Elie Wiesel

#4. As Americans we like to believe that we're loved in international politics or that people like what we're doing. But we also recognize that we have an extraordinary responsibility to do what we think is right, and that sometimes what we do is not very popular.

Condoleezza Rice

#5. The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.

Frederick Lenz

#6. She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes:

Lewis Carroll

#7. However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The future, however uncertain it might be, awaited me.

Teodor Flonta

#8. It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

Elon Musk

#9. Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost",he repeated softly,shutting his eyes.
The word felt like a caress.
"what does it mean?"
'It means "The Friend","The One I Love","the One I Long For".

Muriel Maufroy

#11. We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

M. Russell Ballard

#12. There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Bill Condon

#13. Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

Ray Bradbury

#14. Until then he'd worked hard, but he got in his share of malingering like everybody else.

Lev Grossman

#15. Your attitude in life, determines your perception on life.

Jim Reynolds