"There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over."

-- E. Nesbit

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Matter Quotes

“This is a clichÃ©, but never listen to anyone who says â€œYou canâ€™t do thatâ€. Those are usually the people who canâ€™t do it. Not you.”
“Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.”
“As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.”
“I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.”
“I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.”
“The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.”

Source : "Double-You Double-You One" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 201.
“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”
“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”

You may also like:

Anna Sewell
Novelist
C. S. Lewis
Novelist
Charles Dickens
Writer
Edward Eager
Dramatist
Fabius Maximus
Politician
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Playwright
J. K. Rowling
Novelist
Kenneth Grahame
Film writer
Rudyard Kipling
Writer