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lonely good-day writing
William Zinsser Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.
lonely fun writing
William Zinsser Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
lonely loneliness destiny
Woodrow Wilson There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.
lonely loneliness book
William Wordsworth Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.
lonely nature rivers
William Wordsworth I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
lonely sleep sky
William Wordsworth The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
lonely nature spring
William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
lonely silly america
William Saroyan What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
children finds himself useless
Jason Statham I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.
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Kerry Nelson Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.
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Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
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John Romano Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
children school thinks
Tony Buzan All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
children discovered information passing people
Sugata Mitra It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.
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Sugata Mitra In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
children inclined less standing
Sugata Mitra If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
children few reach remote supplies villages
Ann Veneman There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.
reading sea library
Richard Dawkins We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
reading men fleas
Samuel Rogers A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.
reading wife secret
Rhys Ifans But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].
reading thinking scripts
Rebecca Eaton I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.
reading literature beats
Richard Ford I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
reading feelings literature
Richard Ford I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
reading writing
Richard Ford To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
reading army names
Robert Duvall Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
reading book wonderful
Roald Dahl Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.