"I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation."

-- Tara Bray Smith

#Hands Quotes #Conversation Quotes #Used Quotes

“The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.”
“I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.”
“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press
“Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.”

Source : Kālidāsa, C. R. Devadhar (1984). “Works of Kalidasa: Kayva”, p.52, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.”
“The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”
“I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.”
“Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control...”

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