11 ratings (4.45 avg)
11 reviews

Jack Osider

Add friend

Jack’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (13)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (11)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Jack’s Quotes

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

8181 likes

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

34482 likes

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

11691 likes

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

2784 likes

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

tags: stupid

1607 likes

More of Jack’s quotes…

Thoughts and Opinions — 255 members — last activity Feb 20, 2011 05:54PM
This group is dedicated to freedom of speech and our god given ability to think. Talking will include the simple things of life as well as the complex ...more

Debate — 406 members — last activity Apr 07, 2018 09:41AM
Do you like to debate? Have you been monopolizing conversations on goodreads, arguing points you feel strongly about? Do you want people to understand ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22527 members — last activity May 04, 2026 06:38PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Music — 23 members — last activity Jul 01, 2009 06:56AM
have a way cool song you want to show to all your buddies? post it here! rules- of course 1. no inapropriate music videos- if you would be ok with you ...more

Writing Passionates — 387 members — last activity Dec 01, 2021 12:43AM
This is a group for all those out there who are passionate about writing. Here is where you can discuss topic ideas, writing techniques and styles, pl ...more

More of Jack’s groups…