Cryptic Loneliness Quotes & Sayings

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. — Rick Riordan

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. — Arnold Rothstein

I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art. — Thomas Gabriel Fischer

But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard -to-pin-down striated pillow formation. — Neal Stephenson

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic. — Vivian Campbell

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up. — Edna Ferber

Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses, a slave obeys. Kill! A man chooses! A slave obeys! OBEY! — Andrew Ryan

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN. — John Green

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves. — Harvey MacKay

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn? — Confucius

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other. — Russell Simmons

Without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins. — Bryce Courtenay

One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy. — Sonia Sotomayor