Edgar Snow Red Star Over China Quotes

#1. My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form of a white powder and cream. I don't actually know what was in it because when you're young, you're not interested in skincare, and I didn't want to walk around the house with a white face.

Michelle Yeoh

#2. Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. The function of suspense is to put the reader in danger of an overfull bladder.

Sol Stein

#4. Allowing fear to hold you back won't get you anywhere worth being.

Kira Saito

#5.
Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.

Mary Oliver

#6. Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.

Tony Reinke

#7. The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

Edi Rama