Hollyleafs Quotes & Sayings

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow) — Victor Borge

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever. — Mortimer J. Adler

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties. — Sydney Smith

Remember that you don't have to forget what happened, but you can forget the pain. — Lindsey Leavitt

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. — Ben Okri

At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.' — Pete Hamill

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That's the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism. — Edward R. Murrow

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. — James A. Garfield