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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 knowledge blow
Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others. William Matthews
reading law encounters
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work. William J. Brennan
reading book reading-books
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. Virginia Woolf
knowledge love mainly power pursuit
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power Bertrand Russell
knowledge deals known
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Richard P. Feynman
knowledge men ideas
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective. William Whewell
knowledge possession labor
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. Samuel Smiles
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Richard Francis Burton
knowledge proportion objects
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
knowledge giving mind
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. Samuel Johnson
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
knowledge men mind
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. William Cowper
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Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country. Ron Walters
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It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.
blows mind
It blows his mind, my mind, his wife's mind. Larry Clark
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He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry Cyril Connolly
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He'll be a force, but obviously it will be a blow if his signature issue goes down in flame. Charlie Cook
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic. Daniel Bruhl
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Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't get much better than this!
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Having a team come in with three scores under 40 on a par 36 course is very good. Especially on a breezy day like this when the wind is blowing pretty good, it was a little statement by Lyndon. They came to play.
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Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,