Quotes & Sayings About Promoting Reading

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment. — W. Somerset Maugham

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop. — Kurt Cobain

Make life an art rather than art from life. — David Gilmour

No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me. — Alanis Morissette

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too. — Bill Veeck

The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention. — Arthur Waley

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province. — Leigh Brackett

And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together. — Curtis Sittenfeld

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface? — Anne Parillaud