#din

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#cinema #college #college students #dating #friends

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#always #any #attempt #critical #doing

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#controls #designing #dinosaurs #evolving #experiment

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke—who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught—and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting. And then I dreamed.... ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetic-prose #change

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes. ↗

— James Dickey

#depending #even #feel #fire #flash

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#gilded #i #incredibly #jets #lonely

حينما تترقب خلف ستار الخوف عودتهم ! وحينما تعتقد بأن أعاصير الحياة عصفت بهم كما عصفت بك عند رحيلهم .. وحينما تعتقد بأنهم مازالوا هناك على رصيف الذكرى يقفون ، ينتظرون طيف أقدامك ! يترقبون مجيئك ويعتصرون ألماً على فراقك ..! كما تفعل أنت الآن ، وكما فعلت منذ زمن عندها تكون ياعزيزي أقرب إلى الجنون ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success