"since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary."

-- Joan Aiken

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“PowerPoint makes us stupid.”

Source : "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint" by Elisabeth Bumiller, www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.
“Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.769, Ballantine Books
“Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.
“We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars and all that. So that's the origin of We Know the Way. From very early on we said, for an audience that doesn't know this, what we need a song that can really have the kind of sweep and the, you know, pull you in. So that was early on, we conceived of like that should be a musical moment [in Maona].”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com
“If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.”
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.”
“We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.”

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