"The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book."

-- Wilson Mizner

#Book Quotes #Introduction Quotes #Courtship Quotes

“We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.”
“Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.”
“In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.”
“For visions come not to polluted eyes.”

Source : ..... Fisher, Fisher, Son, & Co, Mary Howitt, L.E.L. (1841). “Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book: With Poetical Illustrations”, p.23
“Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.”
“In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?”

Source : "The case for free tampons?" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2014.
“They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.”
“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin

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