Reader's Bill of Rights
1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes
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I: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, an...
MANUEL J. SMITH Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:
1. Be forward thinking
2. Be inventive, and daring GERMANY KENT Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it wai...
FULTON J. SHEEN 16 Things Romance Readers Are Tired Of Hearin
1. All Romance books are exactly the same.<...
BOOKBUB BULLETIN So I take a deep breath.
Step forward.
Let go.
10 seconds and I'm trying to bre...
TAHEREH MAFI Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life
1. If you don’t believe the impossi...
SHANNON L. ALDER This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm.
"Right," I agreed.
"Absolutel...
MIRA GRANT Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be...
SHANNON L. ALDER Principles of design:
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Sim...
DONALD A. NORMAN The 7 Steps to Transformation:
1. Dream it.
2. Envision it.
3. Think it.
4. Grow...
GERMANY KENT Right now is not the time
ELTON GALLEGLY Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably.
'Go to hell!' said Bill.
'Right-...
P.G. WODEHOUSE How are we going to get out of here?"
"Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan."
"...
DEREK LANDY If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Right!"
"Right!"
"You can get there!"
"I can get there!"
"You're a natural at co...
TERRY PRATCHETT 7 Rules to a Happy Life:
1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT Distance yourself from people who:
1. Disrespect you
2. Mistreat others
3. Are abusiv...
GERMANY KENT The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:
1. Leadership without character.
2. Foll...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Raeanne
Mirror, Mirror
When I look into a
mirror,
it is her face I see. ELLEN HOPKINS The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
DEBASISH MRIDHA Everything is all right,
When you’re here,
When you’re right next to me,
When my ...
ELIZABETH BROOKS 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:
1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT 7 keys to getting more things done:
1 start
2 dont make excuses
3 celebrate small s...
GERMANY KENT Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful...
ILONA ANDREWS Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and ...
GARY PAULSEN The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It's going to be okay," Park said.
She nodded. "Right."
"Because I love you."<...
RAINBOW ROWELL Isn't there something in living dangerously?'
There's a great deal in it,' the Controller...
ALDOUS HUXLEY CUSTOMER: I’m looking for a biography to read that’s really interesting. Could you recommend one...
JEN CAMPBELL You totally need to watch the news."
"Can't."
"Why?"
"It's too depressing."
"Rig...
DARYNDA JONES it's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
h...
DAVID LEVITHAN Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
RAINBOW ROWELL If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my hea...
ALEXANDER POPE Do you know what it is like,
to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt
you every ni...
LANG LEAV BLACK AND WHITE
I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many oth...
SUZY KASSEM You see, there's a drill:
1. I [Amy] will say 'Right then, let's go and rescue him [Rory].'
JAMES GOSS We all are filled up with vacuum.
Just need the right one to burst out.
❤
- The Dr...
SHONALI DEY For there is no such thing:
Right person at the right time!
Instead with the right team,...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
T...
GREEN DAY Speed Up...
- Has never been the right decision.
SLow Up
- ANd spee...
DEYTH BANGER Wait," I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. "Where are you going?"...
MICHELLE HODKIN 7 things negative people will do to you. They will...
1. Demean your value;
2. Destroy yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Knock! knock!
who's there?
me!
me who?
that's right?
what's right?
mee...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN In town, there's a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the summer.
I used to like w...
INIO ASANO Live your life with courageous
integrity. Do the right thing,
not the easy thing.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI 11 Benefits of Asking Questions
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curios...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only al...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds;
1. Powe...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR YOU ARE JUST
You are not just for the right or left,
but for what is right over the ...
SUZY KASSEM DESEGREGATE THE BUSES WITH THIS 7 POINT PROGRAM:
1. Pray for guidance.
2. Be courteo...
JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.”
JULIA QUINN But whatever
However
Whenever this ends I want you to know
That right now
I love...
ANDREA GIBSON In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
— do the right thing, for the right...
JOSH RUSHING I have an image of
Turtle
right on the forehead.
She seems to go through the lobes of...
SANDRA HARNER 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right ...
KAY RYAN You are not white,
but a rainbow of colors.
You are not black,
but golden.
You a...
SUZY KASSEM Three great actions:
To do what is right,
To love mercy, and
To walk humbly with Y...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the im...
JOE DARION What does the Lord God requires of us:
To love what is good.
To do justice.
To do wha...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, ...
A.E. HOUSMAN I'd rather not have him kill you right now.
-Cenity to Draco Malfoy
From House-ist, ...
CENITY THE CONSCIOUS HUMAN
You are not just white,
but a rainbow of colors.
You are no...
SUZY KASSEM Have you seen Frances?”
He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooti...
JULIA QUINN "There Is A Voice Inside Of You
That Whispers All Day Long,
"I Feel That This Is Right For M...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Total evil.
dang, his principal had been right all along...
he really was demo...
SHERRILYN KENYON What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I t...
MARIA SEMPLE reflect about what it would take
<...
BRIAN BURKE And then his noise falls completely silent-
And he stops struggling-
And looki...
PATRICK NESS Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
W.H. AUDEN He’s not that smart.”
“She’s right,” Augustus says. “It’s just that most re...
JOHN GREEN Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First<...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Just Friends
I know that I don't own you,
and perhaps I never will,
so anger wh...
LANG LEAV I've heard you say so many a time
That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines...
SANHITA BARUAH Okay but he has a case for you," she said again, her voice singsong.
"Don't care."
<...
DARYNDA JONES We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.”
“The Clave has the c...
CASSANDRA CLARE That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there."
"Which one is me?" I asked.
RICK RIORDAN The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. "We walk out of here ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date.
1. You're wearing that?
2. Something smells funny....
GENA SHOWALTER Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left. DR. SEUSS Shrinking in a corner,
pressed into the wall;
do they know I'm present,
am I here at ...
LANG LEAV as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. We are here to help you.
2. You...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Although life is hard in pace
Lose not thy calm and grace.
If thee are not tender
...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.
“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underne...
SHANNON DELANY I am not human.
I am a cyborg.
I am mechanic.
That's all I am... right?
MARISSA MEYER To be happy, you need to do
the right thing for you,
even when it feels like the
hard...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.'
'My accent?'
DEREK LANDY And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important
1. Use their name.
2. Express sincer...
ROY T. BENNETT Hey Baby.
Baby? You're kidding me, right?
I was trying it out. No?
No.
CASSANDRA CLARE You
...
MATHIEU GARON You know I wanna stay with you, right? I mean forever... we agree on that, right?
Are you...
ARNE BELLSTORF Gift giving is a true art.
1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to giv...
VERA NAZARIAN Dignity
/ˈdignitē/ noun
1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for h...
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DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
DANIEL EK I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a w...
DANIEL EK With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I lea...
DANIEL EK I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
DANIEL EK Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
DANIEL EK At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
DANIEL EK He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
DANIEL DREW We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
DANIEL DREW Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolutio...
DANIEL DENNETT There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on su...
DANIEL DENNETT Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds a...
DANIEL DENNETT We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good ...
DANIEL DENNETT If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into t...
DANIEL DENNETT Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expressio...
DANIEL DENNETT Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction ...
DANIEL DENNETT In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...
DANIEL DENNETT Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preservin...
DANIEL DENNETT The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETT I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ...
DANIEL DENNETT As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and ...
DANIEL DENNETT The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...
DANIEL DENNETT The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
DANIEL DENNETT In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may ...
DANIEL DENNETT An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
DANIEL DEFOE Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE He that is rich is wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
DANIEL DEFOE I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...
DANIEL DEFOE The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
DANIEL DEFOE In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
DANIEL DEFOE It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of ...
DANIEL DEFOE As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
DANIEL DEFOE The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and le...
DANIEL CUDMORE I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
DANIEL CUDMORE Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.
DANIEL CUDMORE If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers ju...
DANIEL CUDMORE I would love to work on a Bond film.
DANIEL CUDMORE If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
DANIEL CUDMORE Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfi...
DANIEL CUDMORE If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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