Walter Dean Myers Quotes
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
Walter Dean Myers
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
Eddie Murphy
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
Caitlin Moran
We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
Arthur Eddington
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.
Moliere
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson
As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. “I want it to be the way it was." But if you continue the way it was there will be no “is."
Robin Williams
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
Walter Dean Myers
