Quotes & Sayings About Becoming A Lifetime Reader

Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice. — Sophocles

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure. — Tony Judt

Earth is crammed with Heaven. — Emily Dickinson

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could! — Nikki Reed

I can't help the terms of endearment. I "Honey, Sweetie, Baby" everyone, from my grandma to the mailman. It's a nurse thing. Molly — Lucey Phillips

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull. — Neal Asher

Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book. — Evelyn Waugh

Writing is the most disembodied art, and reading and writing are largely private and solitary experiences, so music and dance have always enchanted me as arts in which the body of the performer communicates directly to the audience, welding a kind of communion writers rarely experience. — Rebecca Solnit

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models ... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written. — Alberto Manguel