Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 6, 1906 - March 14, 2001

Topics

LifeDeadBringThingsUseReaders

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

John Poindexter

TechnologyBeginningInformation

I go to the local record store to buy my albums.

Sonny Sandoval

GoBuyStoreLocalRecord Store

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

Steve Martin

BusinessHeartCollegeChanceBecome

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

Tom Jones

LoveHomeListeningNewRadioStuff

I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Robyn Davidson

MyselfPeopleThinkSeeThings

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.

Mary-Kate Olsen

StoryTrueWriteGoingWhether

Cyclists need to obey the Highway Code, not run red lights, and not ride with iPods on, and motorists need to be more respectful and look out for cyclists.

Lizzie Armitstead

RideRedLookLightsRunNeed

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Jonathan Kozol

HiroshimaMoreOldClassroomYears

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

David Tepper

GuyJustWhoHappensBillionaire

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

Christopher Lee

SadAlwaysWickedSomethingCome

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

Brian d'Arcy James

ThinkYouKnowDoneAlwaysBig

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

Anthony Carmona

PeaceActionPowerfulSecurityMay

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