"Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly."

-- William Morris Hunt

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.”
“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”
“Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.”
“I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel good, dance. Don't leave the club feeling worse than you did before you got there! That's what music used to be for.”
“He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.”
“I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.”
“Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.”

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