#read

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#amount #between #brothers #exercise #first

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. ↗

— Alan Tudyk

#down #film #heady #into #reading

I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality. ↗

— Daniel Petrie

#because #cocoon #directing #excited #feeling

Man lives for science as well as bread. ↗

— William James

#lives #man #man lives #science #well

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#insp #reading #reading-books #dreams

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers. ↗

— Kat Lowe

#book-preservation #reading #dreams

All of my books now come from readers' ideas. ↗

— Ann Rule

#come #ideas #now #readers

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#please #reader #subjects #task

When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with the wisdom of his remarks. At one dinner, the question was raised, "What human condition deserves the most pity?" Each of the guests responded, but the answer that is still remembered is Benjamin Franklins's: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read. ↗

— Paul Kropp

#life

I just can't read music. ↗

— Kate Smith

#just #music #read