Murati Place Quotes

#1. For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

Rick Riordan

#2. Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

Michael Eric Dyson

#3. The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

George Eliot

#4. It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

Gertrude Atherton

#5. History does not unfold: it piles up.

Robert Adams

#6. Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

William Hazlitt

#7. Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

S.J. Watson

#8. Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.

Paula Brackston

#9. Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window.

Auliq Ice

#10. But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;

Steven D. Levitt

#11. Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

Vladimir Lenin