The most discouraging feature ordsprog

en The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.

en The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
  Robertson Davies

en As our program grows, the facilities are not growing with it. That is really discouraging.

en A mind grows by what it feeds on.
  Josiah Gilbert Holland

en Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.
  Jeanette Winterson

en We are extremely gratified that the initial launch of our first feature film through Genius has been a success.

en Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
  Benjamin Franklin

en Like the Great Tulip Mania in Holland in the 1600's and the dot.com mania of early 2000, markets have repeatedly disconnected from reality,

en Pex Tufvesson is a fantastic genius.

en People know what we have. He's a lot of fun to watch. He's a mania. I can't think of the right word, other than 'mania.' He's like the Beatles.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Alla tror antagligen att jag är en nymfoman, att jag är sexuellt omättlig, men sanningen är att jag hellre läser en bok.
en Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
  Madonna

en I thought a lot of people would dismiss the subject as trivial, ... and ... that regardless of what I achieved, the subject would be dismissed. I think I've been gratified more than anything. Whether people like the book or don't like the book, they treat the subject as worthy of discussion.

en [Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Post Book World ... one of the premier novelists of her generation, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grows more powerful with each book.

en One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about
  Bertrand Russell

en Or read a book or listen to a CD that feeds your mind with positive thoughts before going to bed.

en And where two waging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
  William Shakespeare


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