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Francis Spufford Quotes

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

Francis Spufford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: 1964

Topics

Past Walking Wealth Find Leave Ways

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

Science Politics Political Well Than

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

Matthew James Thomas

Life Music Time Myself Depression

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

Maurice Gibb

Brother Voice Phone Him Line Even

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee

American Look Movies Try Big Apply

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Myself Fashion Doing Way Only Had

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Sly Stone

Think Push You Try Little Deeper

Just because I'm a girl and it's pop doesn't mean I have to write about love and heartbreak.

Sigrid

Love Girl Just Because Mean Write

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

Roger Moore

Character Bond Kind May British He

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

Mike Love

Beach Singing Top Forty Fifty Out

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

Mitch Kapor

Best Worst Microsoft Ourselves

I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.

Dilshad Vadsaria

People World Think Laugh Acting

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

Dennis Prager

America White Know Race Students