#ok

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#read #reasons #time #try #wrong

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#free #publishers #sales #see #threatening

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#everything #good #important #knowing #line

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#always #america #boogie #easy #find

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

لمَ أصبت صدري بخنجر الخذلان ؟ بعدما كنت أنت وطني الآمن الذي أفر إليه هاربة خوفاً وفزعاً !! لمَ أهديتني رداء الحزن ؟ في حين كنت بحاجة ليدك لتحتضنني بدفء وتدثرني من صقيع أوجاعي ..! ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#back #body #end #exalted #his

I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#chic #fashionable #i #less #less is more

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good. ↗

— Gary Cole

#being #bracket #good #look #lot