Laura > Laura's Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.”
― Calvin Trillin

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have gotten lost all of my life, maybe more than most, and been found every time.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity--births, widowhood, illnesses--and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one's death as well.”
― Dorothy Gilman

“You haven't been planting seeds of insurrection, have you, Duchess?"
"Well, it's a change from planting geraniums," she retorted.”
― Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

“It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?”
― Dorothy Gilman

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales