"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."

--

C. S. Lewis

#Reading Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets”
“We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.”
“The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.”
“How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.”
“Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.”

Source : Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis
“I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.”

Source : "'Cellmates' star Tom Sizemore on acting sober, fatherhood, and second chances". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. June 1, 2012.
“There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.”
“We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.”

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