A Quote by Jean Rostand

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Jean Rostand

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Jean Rostand
French - Scientist
October 30, 1894 - September 4, 1977

I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or five books beside my bed at night. I particularly enjoy reading about people who have gone through a personal growth.

Mary Robinson

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

Warren Farrell

I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.

Michael Chabon

The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we have about 20 per cent of people who have that prerequisite who are female. So hey, girls: Embrace the very fun career of science and technology. Look at computer science. That's what I did.

Julie Payette

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Gregory Maguire

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

Mason Cooley

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

William Bernbach

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

Mark Gatiss

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

Andrew Bacevich

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

Stephen Marche

We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.

Phil Lord

I would rather do four films and be remembered for them than do 20 forgettable ones.

Nushrat Bharucha

Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.

Jamie Tworkowski

I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.

Ruth Bradley

The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

Cornelia Funke

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

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