Dan Yaccarino quotes

Dan Yaccarino quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.”
-- Dan Yaccarino

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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”
“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.”
“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”
“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
“There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.”
“How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.”
“All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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