English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

A. Whitney Brown Quotes

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

A. Whitney Brown

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. Katharine Hepburn
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. Ike Turner
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control. Wendy Liebman
Robbie Fowler quote: "I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act..."
I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them. Robbie Fowler
jangan tanya apa agamaku. aku bukan yahudi. bukanzoroaster. bukan pula islam. karena aku tahu, begitu suatu namakusebut, kau akan memberikan arti yang lain daripada makna yang hidupdi hatiku. Rumi
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to..."
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. Friedrich Nietzsche
Jack Valenti quote: "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently,..."
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. Jack Valenti
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. Henry Knox
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor. David Herbert Lawrence
It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time. Dakota Fanning
Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch up with the... Alan Watts
Christina Aguilera quote: "When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my..."
When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?' Christina Aguilera
Stanley Crouch quote: "What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go..."
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. Stanley Crouch
John Charles Polanyi quote: "Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the..."
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. John Charles Polanyi