1774 Intolerable Acts Quotes

#1. My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.

Rosemary Mahoney

#2. A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Louis MacNeice

#3. I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles
tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

Penelope Lively

#4. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

Sarah Dessen

#5. Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. "If the water is dark," goes a German aphorism, "the lake must be deep." Instead of using good words like smart, they choose sophisticated or erudite.

Paul J. Silvia

#6. At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Richard L. Evans

#8. I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

Ruth Rendell

#9. People will always make comparisons.

Don DeLillo

#10. When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Debra Winger

#11. What is the beginning of rage, the beginning of anger? Not dislike, but love.

Zia Haider Rahman

#12. Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.

Henry Chesbrough

#13. I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways.

Mona Simpson