#books

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#books #jane-austen #language #movies #screenplays

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#reading #music

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#music

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#happiness #nature #nature

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #grimace #impersonal #impossible #light

My Mommy likes to wiggle And it really makes me giggle. The music keeps her moving And she's smiling as she's grooving. She goes...Wiggle, wiggle to the left; wiggle to the right, Wiggle, wiggle, jiggle, jiggle - Dancing through the night... ↗

— Kathleen Gauer

#music

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#nature #nayeri #wood-house #nature

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. ↗

— Julie Murphy

#children-s-books #courtship #frigate-bird #mating #nature

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were. ↗

— Louise Penny

#louise-penny #still-life #life

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. ↗

— Metallica

#life-lessons #metallica #momnesia #music #life