1905 Nickel Quotes & Sayings

We are flooded with books; books come pouring out of the publishing meat grinder. And, the quality has dropped severely. We may be able to print a book better, but intrinsically the book, perhaps, is not better than it was. We have a backlist of books, superb books, by Margaret Wise Brown, by Ruth Krauss, by lots of people. I'd much rather we just took a year off, a moratorium: no more books. For a year, maybe two - just stop publishing. And get those old books back, let the children see them! Books don't go out of fashion with children; they only go out of fashion with adults. So that kids are deprived of the works of art which are no longer around simply because new ones keep coming out.

from The Openhearted Audience (1980) — Maurice Sendak

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime. — Hod Lipson

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife. — Philippa Gregory

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be. — Colin Trevorrow

Something like that." "You — Gene Wolfe

Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. — Joni Eareckson Tada

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols. — Paul Sabatier

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that. — Andy Borowitz

Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes. — Sarah Pinborough

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things. — Curtis Granderson

Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Operating systems are like underwear - nobody really wants to look at them. — Bill Joy

herself, she stood outside Mark's door, head bowed, contemplating — Cheryl Taylor

All history was at first oral. — Samuel Johnson

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Barbara Walters