#read

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#american #been #great #great american #novel

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#becomes #book #come #eyes #i

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#enough #i #know #me #read

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#neither #nor #read #seen #should

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#bread #does #little #live #man

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear. ↗

— Brian May

#between #each #fresh #gig #giving

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that. ↗

— Theresa May

#allowed #becoming #been #being #britain

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face