"My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts."

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Jack Prelutsky

#Book Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does â€“ Iâ€™m a lousy guitarist.”
“As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.”

Source : Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.96, Harvest House Publishers
“Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.776, Del Rey
“Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?â€ he said. â€œThis was a Fiona Fine original.”
“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.”
“I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.”
“Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.”
“Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.”

Source : Izaak Walton (1653). “The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers”, p.246

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