Open Handedly Quotes

#1. Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Jonathan Raban

#2. As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

Norman Granz

#3. The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

Florence Welch

#5. I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#6. I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Louise Erdrich