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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.
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 knows
I know not how to abstain from reading. Samuel Pepys
reading men fleas
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Samuel Rogers
reading exercise television-watching
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. Richard M. Nixon
library news rooms
Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework? Richelle Mead
library world bookstores
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. Richard Russo
library essentials knows
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. Zadie Smith
library exploring
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. Walter Savage Landor
library used wells
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. William Osler
library example variation
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. Jorge Luis Borges
library fiction born
I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks. Luanne Rice
library this-life closest
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. Ashleigh Brilliant
library bones graveyard
Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library. Pete Seeger
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.
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.
world objective-truth materials
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.
world sake environment
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. Richard Wright