Cornelia Funke Quotes

I love to read aloud.

Cornelia Funke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 10, 1958

Topics

LoveReadAloudI Love

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

Joe Nichols

I AmRoadMediocrityEasyWantWay

When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.

Jennifer Coolidge

PeopleYouWantOverPaySlave

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

Andrew Wylie

LibraryThinkLiteratureYouSerious

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

Andrew Cohen

TeacherTimeSpiritualLookHuman

I believe in humans.

John Malkovich

BelieveI BelieveI Believe InHumans

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

WisdomDoubtYouReasonExperiment

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Siri Hustvedt

MyselfMeBrainHusbandReadingHe

I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?

Tony Rock

HateDoingSayDamnJailDead

That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name.

Mary Steenburgen

NameKnowDifficultPretty

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

Joshua Foer

GreatCreativityMemoryMindFly

Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.

Anthony Joshua

MyselfMeChampionLegendRingKid

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

ArtMomentKnowForgettingProper

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