Rebel Reader Quotes & Sayings

"I'm alive. You're alive. I gotta work to live so I do that and I'll have to do that for a long lime. But when I'm not workin', I'm livin'. So let's ride." — Kristen Ashley

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. — Tom Hooper

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin

Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today. — Debasish Mridha

I am a polite, nonthreatening kind of dragon with excellent manners. Horns are hidden, tail is tucked away, fangs covered. I would never do anything cruel, like stab a man with a knife about ten times to get him to answer a question. — Ilona Andrews

Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people. — Michelle Richmond

Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It — Donald Kagan

He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. — Walter Isaacson

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television. — Eric Burns

Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Whatever you want, work for it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am an incredibly impatient person. — Mindy Kaling

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children. — Viera Scheibner

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do. — Bryan Clay