"I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that."

-- Edward G. Robinson

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #East Quotes

“I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.”
“Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.”
“The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “Affinities”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing
“If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.”
“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
“Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.”

Source : ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.”
“Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.”

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