#liter

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#because #borrowing #compromise #concerned #control

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#illiterate #lot #quite #read

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#beauty #believe #father #felt #gave

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. ↗

— George Saunders

#different #involves #literary #might #model

I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#challenging #changing #create #day #everything

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#based #being #day #doing #dreamed

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#big #bought #broadcast #cassette #headphones

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#great #great music #like #literature #month