#ding

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject. ↗

— Maimonides

#conditions #connected #consider #matter #mental

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#exaltation #faculties #given #lonely #mental

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#continuously #himself #man #say #thinkers

If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You will recognize feelings that have physical signs - increased heart rate, sweaty palms, or calm, relaxed breathing and so on, depending on your mood. These effects are the same you would feel in similar real-life experiences - fear, anger, interest, joy, shame or sadness. Amazingly, you can actually 'live' experience without moving anything but your eyes across a page. ↗

— Joseph Gold

#anger

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#approximately #attending #buses #children #day

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#committee #considered #everywhere #high #highest

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it. ↗

— Brian May

#building #get #i #life #my life

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#afraid #behind #disliked #good #good actors

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#memories #old-age #reading #age