#read

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity. ↗

— William Safire

#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population. ↗

— Stan Sakai

#anything #book #books #bought #dramatically

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#additional #always #audience #aware #brain

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#affected #after #appearance #criticisms #had

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#eternity #into #man #pass

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me? ↗

— Roy Scheider

#away #budgets #hell #kind #lot

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#breadth #compassion #creatures #depth #does

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#chamberlain #done #had #i #kid

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #man #quit #ready #taste

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it? ↗

— Rick Scott

#city #communities #county #doing #growth