#read

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#reading #school #love

Some of the best friends we have are books. Why? Well, they belong usually to our relaxed armchair hours. They come only if chosen; hence they suit the mood or the taste, whether for humor, fantasy, adventure or mystery. In a trice they can take us with them to far places and other times. Best of all, they don't talk back or force themselves upon us, but, like patient, loving friends, wait until we give them our attention. And always, they are as near as our bookshelf when we need them. ↗

— Esther Baldwin York

#reading #humor

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#been #good #good music #music #people

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#habits #hare #inspirational-life #reading #think

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization? ↗

— John Green

#reading #teenagers #business

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#aging #dread #youth #age

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#craft #fiction #reading #writing #art

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa. ↗

— Kiru Taye

#reading #love

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read ↗

— Harper Lee

#love

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#propaganda #reading #thinking #business