Reidars Quotes & Sayings

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it. — Bryant McGill

The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success. — Noah Webster

But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far beyond thought, I live from these ideas, if ideas is what they are. They are sensations that transform into ideas because I must use words. Even just using them mentally. The primary thought thinks with words. — Clarice Lispector

You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement: as skilled furniture makers enjoy making furniture, as drunkards like drinking, as judges like judging, as Sicilians like emptying a shotgun into an enemy's back. I could fill a book with reasons, and they would all be true, though not true of all. Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. — John Fowles

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy! — Kim Coates

Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed. — Roger Daltrey

I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. — Kevin Durand

Readers become the book they are reading. — LM