"Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else."

-- John Green

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.”

Source : Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed The Beast: Number 2 in series”, p.64, Hachette UK
“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.”
“I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.”
“GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?”
“It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
“Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must have: no central bank; no fixed rations between gold and silver; no bail-outs; no suspension of gold payments or other bank frauds; no monetization of debt; and no inflation of the money supply, all of which have proved so disastrous in the past.”
“When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.”
“There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.”

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