#read

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. ↗

— John Sladek

#alive #any #being #century #except

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read. ↗

— John Sladek

#food #hate #i #junk #junk food

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role. ↗

— Christian Slater

#churchill #emotionally #finished #gain #gain weight

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#bodies #chemicals #ever #had #industrial

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#ask #asking #carefully #circle #come

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. ↗

— Anne Smedley

#decisive #dreadfully #something

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#advertise #already #big #i #just

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community. ↗

— Al Smith

#community #family #first #go #neighborhood

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#atmosphere #cameo #contents #image #memory

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

#backwards #better #book #delusions #excellent