#boo

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#broadcasting #easy #game #get #how

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#body #books #bringing #country #enriching

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#been #books #few #i #know

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

May books spread the world over! ↗

— Yann Martel

#may #over #spread #world

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

#dances #each #every #i #i write