"Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade."

-- Al Alvarez

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Kind Quotes

“We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.”
“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Tantalize”, p.29, Candlewick Press
“One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.”
“Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!”

Source : "Forrest Gump". m.imdb.com. 1994.
“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”

Source : Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”
“[T]here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.”
“ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.”

Source : Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.23, Penguin
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”

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