#boo

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr. ↗

— Cassandra Peterson

#boom #character #costume #doing #eight

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#children #children

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#company #conversation #decide #development #good

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show? ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#easy #show #were #write

A lot is riding on each individual docent. Here is the docent definition: a docent is a tour guide; a docent is a person who can cause a museum visitor to look more closely at art; a docent is a person who bring art works to life by selectively suggesting ways to look at an art piece, thereby bringing a new awareness to a museum visitor; a docent is a gate keeper; a docent is a person who volunteers hours of time equity for the recompense of a smile. ↗

— Ivy Hendy

#art

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #experience #i #i think #opinion

People do write books. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#people #write

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. ↗

— Idries Shah

#donkeys #ego #evolution #intelligence #poses