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«The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| Keywords:
at leisure, Best interests, books, Books not, cause, company, conversation, decide, development, happiest, interesting, leisure, mental, mental picture, My picture, not only, pictured, pictures, picture book, Picture It, picturing
«A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.»
«When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
amaze, authors, dust jacket, icon, icons, jacket, jackets, picture book, provoke, remote, worm
«Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.»
«He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
banqueting, banquets, bore, bought, complicated, cookery, fascinated, hungry, noticed, pictures, picture book, recipes, resemblance, vast
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.»
«'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
Alice, Alice in, conversations, pictures, picture book
«Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.»
Author: Nancy Cartwright
(Actress)
| Keywords:
American Girl, American Revolution, Boys and Girls, exceptions, gentlemen, glamorous, gory, ladies, Ladies and, local, Losers, picture book, The American Revolution, The Star, trilogy, winners, world war, World War II
«The picture of a flower in a botanical book is information; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a personal communication. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the depth of our personality it misses the mark. We can treat»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
botanical, misses, picture book
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