{"quotes":[{"text":"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["addictive","anonymous","book","book-a-holic","character","compulsion","cure","eyes","feylynn","holic","ink","jazz","jazz-feylynn","life","life-and-times","lost-of-time","pages","paper","read","reading","reading-books","reading-habit","squint","story","texture","thought-on-reading","time","times","word","written"],"id":1891,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"Time cannot be changed, but time can change you.  -YakupAdar.","author":"-YakupAdar","tags":["time","time","time-travel","time-travel-romance","times","times-never-change","times-running-out"],"id":2284,"author_id":"-YakupAdar"},{"text":"We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["balance","coffee","day","drinking","eat","food","moon","night","payne","roman","seasons","smoke","smoking","stoic","sun","times","wine"],"id":16079,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["award","chance","defeat","failure","hard","loss","probability","succeed","success","times","tough","trial","try","win","winning","winning-attitude","work"],"id":20075,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.).","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["7-habits","age","ageism","consulting","courage","covey","experience","fear","richie-norton","ruckuslist","speaking","speed-of-trust","starting","stephen-covey","stephen-m-r-covey","time","times","young","youth"],"id":20708,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed  whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time  which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.","author":"Mariama Ba","tags":["friendship","times"],"id":24640,"author_id":"Mariama+Ba"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","angry","bitter","bitterness","food-for-thought","glad","happiness","happy","happy-people","hate","hater","haters","hatred","israelmore-ayivor","joy","joyful","leaders","leadership","limit","limitation","limitations","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","several","several-times","times"],"id":30897,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.","author":"Lisa Alther","tags":["friendship","times"],"id":32179,"author_id":"Lisa+Alther"},{"text":"A friend in need is a friend indeed.","author":"Susan Ferrier","tags":["friendship","times"],"id":32450,"author_id":"Susan+Ferrier"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}