#wit

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. ↗

— John Selden

#born #his #learning #man #matter

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. ↗

— Friedrich List

#develop #did #exits #fullest #i

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#any #creative #day #deal #got

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#cannot #creativity #discover #good #good writer

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #beat #fear #hearts #i

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide. ↗

— Joshua Logan

#caught #dead #defeat #go #going

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. ↗

— Jack London

#having #itself #nature #recoil #upon

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#journey #like #song #toil #weary