Readingfor Quotes & Sayings

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. — Claire Danes

Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything — Sunday Adelaja

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching. — Virginia Woolf

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming. — David Selby

It will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson

My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action. — Thomm Quackenbush