Quote it Saturday 11/5/11

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote It 10/15/11

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I was feeling fairly witchy today so my quote is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1

All Witches
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1    

First Witch

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

Second Witch

Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.

Third Witch

Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.

First Witch

Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.

ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Third Witch

Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch

Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Quote it! Saturday 10/8/11

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My quotes (Theme: Fairy tales)

“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.”
― Greenhaven Press

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”
― Charles Dickens

Ok, so I went a little overboard with quotes this week, because I am a little obsessed with fairy tales (as you can probably tell) 

Quote it Saturday 10/1/11

Quote it Saturday is hosted by Freda's Voice, but because of a death in the family she will not be posting this week. So keep Freda and her family in your thoughts.

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
Henry David Thoreau 

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
Steven Wright

And, In honor of Banned Books Week:

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
Maya Angelou 

Quote it Saturday 9/17/11

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Well I’m a little sad that there is no theme this week, because that means that I have to get creative all by myself. Sometimes I just like a little structure….. but luckily for me when I was looking up A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz that I read about on another book blog, (sorry, I can’t for the life of me remember who’s it was… I wish I could give credit) I stumbled upon the author’s webpage and I loved the quote he had in one of his blog posts, actually I love two quotes he quoted.

Albert Einstein ~ “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

And

T.S. Elliot ~ There will be time, there will be time, 

To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; 

There will be time to murder and create,

And time for all the works and days of hands,

That lift and drop a question on your plate.

These quotes were on his blog post about how children’s imaginations are being stifled by overscheduling because their parents want them to become successful adults. I completely agree with him and I actually posted about the same thing (although his was more eloquent than mine)

So, yep, these are my quotes

Happy Readings!