Avah Maldita Quotes & Sayings

The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from. — Douglas Wilson

David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them — Harry Redknapp

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll. — Euripides

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there. — Paul Theroux

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly. — Will Ferrell

Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face ... A good hard day's work. — Lindsay Fox

They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. — Laurie Halse Anderson

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. — John Taylor Gatto