#read

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#breadth #depth #height #linear #narrative

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. ↗

— Jay Carney

#already #america #bills #borrow #ceiling

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#better #communicate #effort #even #lazy

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#body #communicate #conscious #earth #few

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship! ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#board #destined #did #father #german

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. ↗

— Tom Felton

#doing #i #old #reading #seen

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel. ↗

— Jerry Della Femina

#cancel #forget #lot #readers #where

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting. ↗

— David Carradine

#autobiography #awful #bad #bad stuff #casting

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. ↗

— John le Carre

#average #conspiratorial #daily #daily life #employer