#ding

[W]hat upset grownups of both sexes about Elvis' performance was that he had broken the deepest taboo of all. He used his body as rhythmically and erotically and seductively as a woman--that was the forbidden territory he had entered. It was not only repulsive and offensive--it was nauseating--the word most used. It was an attack on male dignity. The kids, however, not yet grown into the stereotypes of gender, saw in him an exhilarating physical freedom. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#genderbending #freedom

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#companionship #friends #friendship #god #reading

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#noblest #pleasure #understanding

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#gardening #reading #sharonlovejoy-s-trowel-error #friendship

What’s said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#reading #silence #funny

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who’d never met a site she couldn’t hack or a code she couldn’t break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I’d come within five feet of a pom-pom ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#funny #funny

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#imagination #literature #music #reading #science

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have." "The better to style with, my dear. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#fairy-tales #funny #hair #red-riding-hood #funny

The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was home. ↗

— Anita Valle

#reading #home

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#honor #respect #understanding #friendship