"The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting."

-- Louis L'Amour

#Time Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.”
“Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.”
“Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.”
“When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.”
“You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?”
“RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.”
“A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.”

Source : afterwards WILLSON STUART (Arabella M.), afterwards JUDSON CHUBBUCK (Emily E.), Ann Hasseltine JUDSON, Sarah Boardman JUDSON (1856). “The Lives of Mrs. A. H. Judson, Mrs. S. B. Judson, and Mrs. E. C. Judson, Missionaries to Burmah, Etc. Twenty-second Thousand”, p.117
“Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.”

Source : Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.63, Writer's Digest Books

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