#read

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#either #forgotten #reading #something #soon

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#i #like #myself #reading #tv

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#article #because #finds #focus #fun

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#am #approach #get #i #i am

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#any #bread #crust #driver #get

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#guitar #how #i #i can #make

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#gentlemen #mail #other #read