Michael Dirda Quotes

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

Michael Dirda

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ChildrenHistorySchoolWorldKnow

'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

Jo Nesbo

PastMeForwardVoiceStoryPresent

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

John Agar

ManAmericaHandFirstSweetheart

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

Jenson Button

CarTimeRoadsMeDrivingEnough

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

FateThingsObeyMustAll Things

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

Robert Staughton Lynd

GoodFeelSomeoneNothingUsIdea

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

John Twelve Hawks

WorldBackSecurityPrivacyDigital

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Amanda Lindhout

LifeLiveSkyMindBookBody

I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.

Amanda Tapping

EnjoyGoGotTwitterSomeQuite

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'

Stephen Elop

TimeExperienceMomentsYouSay

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Louis Begley

CollegeDirectionHarvardGoneWould

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron

TruthHopeFaceNothingTouchSee

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Brian Clough

LifeShoesHellMy LifeHolidayGo

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