| "Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler |
| "Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman |
| "One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well." »Amos Bronson Alcott |
| "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." »Dean Gooderham Acheson |
| "The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath." »Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart |
| "If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Wayne Am I supposed to be a man, am I supposed to say, it's OK, I don't mind. I don't mind. Well I mind I mind big time And you know what the worst part is I NEVER LEARNED TO READ." »Wayne's World |
| "Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." »John Keats |
| "No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed." »Muriel Spark |
| "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin |
| "Tis the good reader that makes the good book." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." »George Frost Kennan |
| "There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper'" »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander." »Isaac Asimov |
| "I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)" »Mark Twain |
| "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End." »Maitri Upanishads |
| "The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it." »Unknown |
| "All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes." »Cicero |
| "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." »Dan Quayle |
| "What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few." »Shunryu Suzuki |
| "Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk." »Oswald Mosley |
| "The union of the Word and the mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality." »The Divine Pymander |
| "By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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