Zaffari Quotes

#1. The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.

Ron Baratono

#2. A woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.

Virginia Graham

#3. Everything interesting was in the books; it was books that made me aware of the variety of the world.

Teju Cole

#4. No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Marian Wright Edelman

#5. The last one had been that of his father, who'd died happy in the knowledge that his son was maintaining

Terry Pratchett

#6. Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#8. You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

Michael McKean

#9. like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower.

Alice McDermott

#10. MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

#11. Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

John Grierson

#12. One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#13. Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live.

Monica Potter

#14. We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Derek Jacobi

#15. If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
then it better not come at all.

John Keats