No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. -Porter, Noah
Quotes :
- Derek Walcott Quotes "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ~Derek Walcott, author of I READ, I TRAVEL, I BECOME“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” “ ~Derek Walcott, author of…
- "Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure… "Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin
- "The students turn their applications in to the… "The students turn their applications in to the Dean of Students office, and then all members read the essays without knowing their name or face. And then we vote accordingly." - William Shaffer
- John Griffith – signs and sounds "But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come." ~from THE CALL OF THE WILD (1903) by John Griffith