#ok

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#look #parade #rain #rainbow #rains

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#book #deal #difference #eager #great

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appear #gods #invoke #much #never

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. ↗

— Julia Child

#careful #close #cook #cooking #give

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. ↗

— Julia Child

#art form #cooking #form #france #national

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean. ↗

— Norton Juster

#had #i #i think #just #know

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#after #book #could #expect #female

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#kids #readers #reading #funny

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#affect #badly #british #british press #care