"Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose."

-- Carol Shields

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.”
“The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.”
“When you meet people at dinner parties, you'll ask what they do and it might be a woman who'll say: "Oh I used to work but I'm only a housewife now." They'll put down what they've achieved, like raising kids. You want to say to people "well you're just a wonderful human, just because I have my gob on the telly and I've made some money, it doesn't make me successful or any better than you."”
“Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.”
“There were dragons when I was a boy.”

Source : "How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, Book 1)". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2003.
“I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.”
“I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass a game and a movie. I would die happy if I could be a voice in a game that I would actually play and create easter eggs with the team. That's my dream.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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