Metrical Foot Quotes & Sayings

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter. — Philip Pullman

By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers. — Peter Gallagher

Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it. — The Adjustment Bureau

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly! — Isaiah Washington

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective. — Robert Ripley

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. — Sophie Swetchine