Mcguffey Reader Quotes & Sayings

There is joy in every step you take in life by having passion for what life has to offer you. — Michael Bluemling Jr.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law. — Eric Holder

He was conscious - and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes - that it was through certain words of his, musical words said with musical utterance, that Dorian Gray's soul had turned to this white girl and bowed in worship before her. To a large extent the lad was his own creation. He had made him premature. That was something. Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect. But now and then a complex personality took the place and assumed the office of art, was indeed, in its way, a real work of art, life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting. — Oscar Wilde

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. — Cyril Connolly

Her. My mate. She's near . . . . She was downwind but close enough that he detected her. He didn't know what she looked like, what her name was, or even her species. Yet he'd been waiting a millennium - his entire existence - for her. His head swung around in the direction of the scent. A small female stood alone off to the side of the field. At his first sight of her, his breath was lost, his Lykae Instinct roaring to life within him. - Yours. Take her. - — Kresley Cole

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing. — Christian Bale

When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won't be perfect. It won't be easy. But it will be your story and your best story. — Annie F. Downs

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves. — Jason Alexander

It's just that I am not really a safe person to be with. The life I'd lead wouldn't be a safe life. — Agatha Christie

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein — Mark Rubinstein

Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being? This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. — Fran Lebowitz

An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth. — Don Rickles

It was that reader that she'd found in Mama's trunk. At the schoolhouse they had McGuffey, good lessons about good boys and girls. But Meggie had found the worn, faded book of fairy tales. They had been much more interesting than the stern admonitions of McGuffey. And her imagination had taken flight. Fanciful, that's what her father had called it. And when she'd read about Rapunzel, she'd decided that none of the local boys would ever do. A real prince was coming up the mountain for Meggie Best someday. She was sure of it. Unfortunately, this morning she'd thought that he'd arrived. — Pamela Morsi

There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville