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reading
I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read, Harold Bloom
reading writing imagination
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Robert Creeley
reading mean kids
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it. Robert Creeley
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading character may
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Richard Whately
reading ideas excellence
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. Richard Avedon
reading fiction taxation
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. Rose Macaulay
reading different poetic
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Umberto Eco
reading mean games
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. Umberto Eco
doe add bangs
Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence. Richard Dawkins
doe reason
Nobody does anything for one reason. Russell Banks
doe loud
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud. Russell Brand
doe judgment prophet
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet. Reinhold Niebuhr
doe sincerity ceremony
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. William Wycherley
doe sides sad-music
I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass. Sarah Silverman
doe ghost holy
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. Robert Duvall
doe opinion wells
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. Richard Rohr
doe mexico prisoner
I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that. Tucker Carlson
worldwide
Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level, Christine Johnson
world missions composer
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those. Richard D. James
world encounters virtue
As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior. Lord Shaftesbury
world hearing salt
We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt. Robert Collier
world this-world blanket
We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others. Rob Thurman
world superstar ridiculous
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world. Rob Sheffield
world worthwhile variety
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile. Richard P. Feynman
world evolution newton
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. Richard Dawkins
world objective-truth materials
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world. Richard Dawkins