Mijlenver Quotes & Sayings

...literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment.

Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children.

...The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward. — John Wood

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. — Neil Gaiman

There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby. — Nick Hornby

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance? — William Shakespeare

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination
it would turn into a masterpiece. — Franz Grillparzer

He is someone who lives in the moment, with no affection for the past. He savours every instant of the present as if it were still the best and only time, with no comparisons, no measurement. — Kim Thuy

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke. — P. J. O'Rourke

But the only things I knew were hawkish things, and the lines that drew me across the landscape were the lines that drew the hawk: hunger, desire, fascination, the need to find and fly and kill. — Helen Macdonald