Top 14 Wondell Wallace Quotes
#1. He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.
Patricia C. Wrede
#3. A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
W. H. Auden
#4. In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.
David Brooks
#5. We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
Jay Hernandez
#6. While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
Neil MacGregor
#8. Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#9. I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.
John Irving
#10. There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
Allan Houston
#11. On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry. It was ill will, the ill will of the universe, that distressed her.
Margaret Atwood
#12. It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
Samuel Johnson
#13. The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.
Nadia Boulanger
#14. Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle
Tamora Pierce
