#books

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#could #i #memoirs #think #three

Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#inspirational-life #intellectual-success #yellow #food

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #become #deeply #high #high school

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality. ↗

— Brad Thor

#books #i #i think #reality #think

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#considered #lot #read #tv #viewed

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#considered #lot #read #tv #watch

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#crap #deep #i #people #prison

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#books #could #defensive #enough #essentially

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. ↗

— Chris Ware

#afford #anybody #books #i #innate