"My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know."

-- Fanny Kemble

#Reading Quotes #Night Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.”
“Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.”
“Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.”

Source : John Shelby Spong (1991). “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture”, HarperOne
“In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.”
“Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill
“He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.”
“Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.”
“To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.”

Source : Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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