Consuetudo Loci Quotes & Sayings

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school. — Stephen D. Krashen

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits. — Paul Vixie

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer. — Malcolm Gladwell

I refused to take no for an answer. — Bessie Coleman

My protag likes to play with matches. Then she finds out she doesn't need the matches.'
"I would totally totally TBR that," Sagan said. — Scott Westerfeld

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland. — Jack Paar

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life. — Leonard Mlodinow

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read. — Tucker Max

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has. — Vladimir Nabokov

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones. — Ambrose Bierce

It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever. — Tess Gallagher

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives. — Paulo Coelho

Everything is sweetened by risk. — Alexander Smith