"People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago."

-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.”
“Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.”

Source : Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.124, DoctorZed Publishing
“A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there”
“Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.”

Source : "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.
“May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.”
“Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. â€œYou have the Fraggle Rock theme song as your ring tone,â€ he said, with a bemused look on his face. â€œYou are so weird.”

Source : Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.248, Bantam
“Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.”
“I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.”

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