Waldensian Quotes

#1. Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Cam Gigandet

#2. Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

Bono

#4. Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish

Aftab Alam

#5. In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Bill Watterson

#6. The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Winston S. Churchill

#7. It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Jon Foreman

#8. Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

Steve Coogan

#9. Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived ... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

#10. After fourteen years of matrimony, I have discovered that hoping your other half telepathically reads your mind only leads to someone wanting to punch the other one in the face.

Twinkle Khanna

#11. I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

Aimee Bender