February 11, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Thomas A. Edison (1847 – 1931):

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

and

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

and

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”

and

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”

Jane Yolen (1939 - ):

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

and

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

Mo Willems (1968 - ):

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”

and

“The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.”