Top 20 Mifflin Quotes
#1. People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley
#2. I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
Patrick DeWitt
#3. There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley
#4. Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser. It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning. Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.
Christopher Morley
#5. When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.
Molly Crabapple
#6. Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
Edmund Blunden
#7. The [Gila River area is] so utterly desolate, desert, and Godforsaken, that Kit Carson says a wolf could not make his living upon it." | U.S. Representative THOMAS HART BENTON addressing the house of representatives, June 26, 1854
Margot Mifflin
#8. That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.
James Patterson
#9. Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.
Oprah Winfrey
#10. We need a place, just for us. It could be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. It might be a whole secret country, and you and I could be the rulers of it.
Katherine Paterson
#11. All kneel for Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Shackles, and Mother of Dragons, Missandei called.
Anonymous
#12. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
#13. A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling into a courageous, peaceful, and loving person.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#14. The point of a maze is to find its center. The point of a labyrinth is to find your center.
Anonymous
#16. No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists
C.F.W. Walther
#17. I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
Craig Claiborne
#18. The surprise, for me, is that the accruing weight of these departures doesn't bury us, and that even the pain of an almost unbearable loss gives way quite quickly to something more distant but still stubbornly gleaming.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
#20. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.
Josh Radnor
