#m

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#found #give #glad #hope #i

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#clock #gay #get #good #great

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#appetite #calls #chair #danger #his

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#burden #children #feel #grim #i

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#bad time #because #been #child #children

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#came #college #come #come and go #cousin

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows more than what he embodies and teaches, has other skills along with the ones for which he is paid. He keeps all that to himself; it is his property. It is set aside for his leisure, his soliloquies, his nights. At a propitious moment, he will put it into action, tear off his mask. So far, he has been racing well; within sight is the finish line, his final reserves start pouring in. Fate challenges him; he responds. The dream, even in an erotic encounter, comes true. But causally, even here; every goal is a transition for him. The bow should snap rather than aiming the arrow at a finite target. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#man #skill #strength #dreams

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cutting #economy #either #get #ground