“ Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
“ A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
“ I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
“ I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. ”
- Geraldine Ferraro- Copy
“ History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ”
- Napoleon- Copy
“ As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version-whether the event itself was a flop or a success. ”
- Thomas Griffith- Copy
“ He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to become a fake version of my own father. ”
- Hugh Laurie- Copy
“ Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
“ Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
“ If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
“ Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? ”
- Lawrence Durrell- Copy
“ The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. ”
- Edward Carpenter- Copy
“ It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game. ”
- Frank McKinney Hubbard- Copy
“ True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
“ When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. ”
- H. Allen Smith- Copy
“ If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix… ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
“ There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
“ Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities — of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. ”
- David Grayson- Copy
“ History is simply the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
“ The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. ”
- Stephen Bayley- Copy
“ I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
“ Bill Gates is a very rich man today … and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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