Misstating Quotes

#1. It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister;

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

Stephen Covey

#3. People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. He kissed me tenderly as my heart thumped out of control. My fingers slipped into his thick, black hair and held tightly. He paused, not wanting to pull away. I didn't let him. I was going to say goodbye properly. I held tightly, pressing my lips to his, soft at first then hard with desire.

Leigh Goff

#5. I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character-the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

Jose Saramago

#6. Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Anne Sexton

#7. I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

Robert Irvine