"There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor."

-- Phyllis McGinley

#Book Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Needs Quotes

“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.”
“I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,”
“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”
“The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.”
“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
“I don't feel comfortable making empty music.”
“You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.”
“I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”

Source : "Mary-Kate Olsen On Her Relationship With Olivier Sarkozy: ‘Everyone Has An Opinion’" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

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