"I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Floyd Norman

#Fun Quotes #Book Quotes #Airplane Quotes

“No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.”
“I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.”
“People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.”
“When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.”

Source : John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA
“Faith is the soul's adventure.”
“When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.”
“I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.”
“Holidays - Have no pity.”

Source : Eugenio Montale (1966). “Selected Poems”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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