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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 two orange
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right. Truman Capote
reading book thinking
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
reading loss president
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. Richard Darman
luxury fiction happy-endings
Happy endings are a luxury of fiction Trudi Canavan
luxury community support
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. Wentworth Miller
luxury affluence hungry
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty? Samuel Richardson
luxury soul stones
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. W. H. Auden
luxury democracy firsts
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. Robert Orben
luxury agents getting-high
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society. William Graham Sumner
luxury people suffering
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too. Samuel Johnson
luxury pleasure havana
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. W. Somerset Maugham
luxury hours wells
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. Vladimir Nabokov
sitting
He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.
sitting
Well, you were sitting practically on Len's lap. George Hamilton
sitting three weeks
He was just sitting here three weeks ago.
sitting tired
He got tired of sitting on the bench. Chris Barnes
sitting may shade
As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made. Richard Barnfield
sitting notes executing
I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing. Tyler Perry
sitting-down sitting bathtubs
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub. Robert Hunter
sitting lucky ifs
You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down. Zig Ziglar
sitting talking
Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more, Jaswant Singh