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"Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children."
Marilyn Penland
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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager
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"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
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"He who sings scares away his woes."
Cervantes
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"I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet."
Tommy Docherty
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"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. "
Hosea Ballou
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"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being."
Thomas Jefferson
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"Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science."
Linda Bowles
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"The paper burns, but the words fly away."
Akiba ben Joseph
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"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Dorothy Parker
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"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
Nadine Gordimer
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"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Ezra Pound
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
Mr Weasly, character in the Harry Potter series of books by J.K. Rowling
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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Kahlil Gibran
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"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
Jane Wagner
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"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face."
James D. Finley
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"Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery."
Mark Amidon
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
Franklin P. Adams
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"A house without books is like a room without windows."
Heinrich Mann
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"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves."
Jeremy Collier
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"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
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"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house."
Joe Ryan
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
James Bryce
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
John Stuart Mill
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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joseph Joubert
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
Mark Twain
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