Aging Quote by Rose Macaulay Download Open image “It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.” — Rose Macaulay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Book Books Inspirational Time
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter. — Kelly Nelson Copy Share Image
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead. — George Brandis Copy Share Image
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there? — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
