#read

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.' ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#being #constantly #day #described #i

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#cannot #does #future #how #illiterate

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#crap #deep #i #people #prison

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#books #could #defensive #enough #essentially

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#comes #documentaries #feels #i #journals

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. ↗

— Ted Turner

#concentrated #control #few #few people #five

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#ass #cool #dislike #except #group

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#artistic #artistically #back #business #challenges

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#considered #lot #read #tv #viewed