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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 dope drug
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. Richard Wright
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 men independence
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne. Rebecca West
reading boys artist
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. Russell Banks
mental showing wants
He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes. Eric Steinbach
men
'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary. Grant Heslov
mention
He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy. Chris Phillips
mentally players tough
He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen. Malik Rose
mental second seems toughness
He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.
mentality strong winning
He's got that winning mentality and we need strong characters.
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
mentally physically prepared
We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .
mentally tougher
We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.
independence
I think what we're doing is going back to the way things were before Independence Air.
independence libertarian way
All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory. Willard Gaylin
independence prosperity danger
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence. William Barclay
independence fruit revolution
Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. Voltaire
independence injustice produce
Injustice in the end produces independence.
independence virtue skepticism
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. Walter Gilbert
independence treats paine
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Treat Williams
independence liberty genius
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. Robert Green Ingersoll
independence oratory constitution
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. Rufus Choate