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Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one… — Richard Wyckoff Copy Share Image
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We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
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“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For Krishna to be such an international icon, so to speak, means there are various perspectives on him. Saints, philosophers and historians… — Shobana Copy Share Image
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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I'm 24, so I'll go out and, yeah, have a few drinks and dance - I love to dance - and have… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't bother reading newspapers - I don't even watch 'Match of the Day.' That way, I don't know what anybody is… — Andy Carroll Copy Share Image
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of… — Thomas Newkirk Copy Share Image
When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible,… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading… — Peyton List Copy Share Image
What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
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When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
![“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.” quote by Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/mark-helprin-1171_book_when-he-s-here-he-s-always-reading-he-sa_2013657.png)
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