#ld

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#authors #body #building #clear #extending

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. ↗

— Johann Most

#book #god #his #idiot #listen

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#because #being #cook #cooked #dinner

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#arts #become #education #fine #fine arts

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#dramatically #harlem #living #view #world

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#became #every #every time #everybody #habit

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information. ↗

— Jean Moulin

#determined #disappear #familiarize #had #hold

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties. ↗

— Jean Moulin

#few #french #groups #had #independently