#ant

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. ↗

— Rita Dove

#alive #come #extremely #had #i

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#free #free society #hold #how #media

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#fragmentation #meant #ownership #private #private ownership

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#away #brain #furniture #get #his

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#being #being famous #concert #events #famous

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. ↗

— Emma Watson

#i #normal #really #want

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#get #grow #grow up #i #know

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#better #every #forced #i #i think