#boo

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#chemistry #could #dragons #dungeons #engaged

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#down #facts #kind #loose #more

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#cold #comfort #farm #favorite #gibbons

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. ↗

— William Feather

#broaden #else #mind #nothing #open

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. ↗

— Michael Caine

#anything #books #careful #i #i am

You know, I don't only play for the record books. ↗

— Roger Federer

#i #know #only #play #record

A great book is like great evil. ↗

— Callimachus

#evil #great #great book #great evil #like

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#classic #finished #never #say #saying

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#cause #constant #existence #family #fine

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#against #booing #britain #close #doing