#boo

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#awful #because #before #book #concepts

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#get #i #into #my own #own

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#collection #first #imprint #new #poems

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#before #boot #boot camp #camp #did

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect. ↗

— John Dyer

#artist #been #books #different #does

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#bus #conclusions #dime #draw #people

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#books #breed #contempt #enforce #i

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#another #book #down #getting #gin

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book. ↗

— Robert Bloomfield

#book #fields #his #look #nature