#din

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television. ↗

— Eric Burns

#reading #television #travel #age

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding. But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same. Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#philosophy #understanding #writer #writing #age

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country. ↗

— Ron Paul

#building #country #elections #got #into

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten. ↗

— Larry Niven

#reading #scifi #age

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. ↗

— Austin Peck

#bible #i #jumped #off #page

I am a member of the rabble in good standing. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#good #i #i am #member #rabble

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#films #i #life #literary #most

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#charming #did #dinner #father #first

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great. ↗

— Roy Wood

#came #did #door #fancy #great

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#cut #much #raise #revenues #spending