"Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations."

-- Charles Ghigna

#Children Quotes #Humorous Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.”
“You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.
“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”
“One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discussed around the table. We talk about the play, and the actors listen, and there have been cases, you disagree on something... I mean, actors don't usually tell you what they're going to do, they do it. Of course, you try to speak with the director and say, "Is there any way you can bring this actor to do something different?" You try as much as you can, but then, you also have to be open to interpretation.”
“There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.”
“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.”

Source : Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.
“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.”
“The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.”

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