"Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading."

-- Stephen D. Krashen

#Reading Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Poor Quotes

“It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.”
“Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.”
“I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.”
“Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.”
“Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. I'd say he might just be a genius.”
“As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.”
“How can one love the light and live in darkness?”
“The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.”

Source : Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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