Geraldine Brooks Quotes

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

Geraldine Brooks

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As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

John Burnside

GreatChildBirdsStoryFurniture

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

EffortResearchColleaguesEnergy

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Jean Shepherd

FateHumanityHandHad

When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing.

John Tiffany

MeStoryYouKnowAudienceTell

We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.

Ana Ivanovic

TimeDayPressureBodyPerfectNeed

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

Shimon Peres

TrustGovernmentOrganizationTalking

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

Tony Campolo

TimeJusticePeopleDownMoreNeck

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Michel Houellebecq

RacismWillAlwaysPlagiarismBig

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Dick Dale

SnowReadingDoorsYouSkinSaid

Diamond planets truly are the most precious.

Debra Fischer

PreciousPlanetsDiamondMostTruly

I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.

Dede Gardner

TheatreThinkReachDarkTreasure

Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

Chevy Chase

HomeGreatDamnJustStillSome

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