Wayfinding Signs Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. — John Green

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system. — Bill Gates

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter. — Philip Pullman

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway

Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. — Diane Arbus

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. — Plato

The business model of racing is not a pretty one. — Jeff Gordon

The world rests on principles. — Henry David Thoreau

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS. — Morrie Schwartz.

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. — Chris Campanioni

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. — Harlan Coben

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. — Harsha Bhogle