To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. MONTAGUE Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
JAMES ATLAS Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation m...
ARTHUR MILLER Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes th...
BERNARD CORNWELL What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation
ROBERT BENCHLEY What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Be so good at what You do . . .
Even those who hate You, or want to, wouldn't naturally have a...
UFUOMA APOKI if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ...
DEYTH BANGER Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or tr...
JOHN RUSKIN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished
THE TALMUD When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gott...
CRAIG T. NELSON Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be graspe...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN What you are good at, you never do it free!
DEYTH BANGER Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the di...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE War hath no fury like a non-combatant
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for i...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distan...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be us...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies.
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for i...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT As a team player and a fullback, a great play for me is a great block to spring a run. It was hard a...
JAKE SLAUGHTER If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at leas...
ANATOLE BROYARD Keep building your word-power. Read, read, read. That way you will be able to say what you really fe...
VIKRANT PARSAI Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
SAMUEL JOHNSON Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m...
JAMES LAUGHLIN The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
HEYWOOD C. BROUN The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON Charles is a great dancer — he's never danced quite like that before.
MARTHA STEWART How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
OSCAR WILDE It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it
OSCAR WILDE Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read onc...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If you tell quotation to a fool, it has to be explained to him.
VIKRANT PARSAI How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great details of the Fl...
EVELYN WAUGH The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
HEYWOOD BROUN Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone qua...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone q...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly writte...
STANLEY ELKIN You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.
JODI PICOULT I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,
ALEXANDER DOWNER Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is e...
DAVID LEAVITT Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.
STEPHENIE MEYER Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.
UNKNOWN Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the ...
EKNATH EASWARAN I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the man...
UMBERTO ECO Rita's impact appears less than initially feared. Gaming assets in Lake Charles were damaged but it ...
CELESTE BROWN Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quota...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A great many complimentary things have been said about the
faculty of memory, and if you look in a ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES People have a spring in their step. When you read that the TV ratings exceeded the final night of Bi...
DAVID GRAVENEY He's been a great friend to the St. Charles Singers.
JEFFREY HUNT I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of c...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
UNKNOWN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Montague came out a little more aggressive in the second half.
JOE HILL Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for a...
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EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND