Books Quote by Jeff Sharlet Download Open image ““I read as easily as I breathe.”” — Jeff Sharlet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Reading, for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“there was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of he young breath-giving air.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.” — T.L. Crain Copy Share Image
“Reading is like breathing. Reading the classics is like breathing highly oxygenated air.” — Jane Greensmith Copy Share Image
“Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I usually breathe. It comes sort of naturally to me. If I forget, asphyxiation’s a handy reminder.” — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
“What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the noise of… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“It's a familiar moment to students of history: the late stage of empire, hairline fractures shooting through the foundations of society. They're like cracks… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“Like Jerry Falwell and [Tim] LaHaye, [Pat] Robertson is a minister who advocates a Bible-based, pro-family agenda. Robertson, a faith healer, also claims to… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“American fundamentalism’s original sentiments were as radically democratic in theory as they have become repressive in practice, its dream not that of Christian theocracy… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“To him, homosexuality is only a symbol for what he learned from the Family is a greater plague: government by people, not by God.” — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
