31th Atau 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

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. — Louis Untermeyer

Wherever he looked, he saw people who demanded to be heard but had nothing to say. — Craig A. Falconer

Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you. — Tony Dungy

The hawk is on my fist. Thirty ounces of death in a feathered jacket; a being whose world is drawn in plots and vectors that pull her towards lives' ends. — Helen Macdonald

I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone. — Natasha Bedingfield

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you. — Kin Hubbard

One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd. — Maureen F. McHugh

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash
suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious. — Paul Theroux

One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky. — Tim Westover

My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say — Ally Carter

And the truth is, the country is very cool. It's absolutely the new town. — Sophie Kinsella