Readerly Experience Quotes

#1. To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#2. It was like being in love with the sun: brilliant and intoxicating to be near, but impossible to keep to oneself.

Alma Katsu

#3. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G.Wells

#4. [Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

Stieg Larsson

#5. At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

Tony Curtis

#6. Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Bill Joy

#7. Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds might understand (or misunderstand) it. Then they need to take each mind from not getting it to mastery. And they need to do this in 45 minutes or less.

Elizabeth Green

#8. If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

Mal Fletcher

#10. I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

Michele Bachmann

#11. NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

Bill Nye

#12. Pheromones didn't care about tomorrow. They didn't care about education or employment or age.

Tracy Brogan

#13. Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

Franklin D. Roosevelt