#read

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him. ↗

— James Salter

#reading #solitude #spiritual-needs #food

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread. ↗

— Thomas Day

#luxuries #poor #right #want #while

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. ↗

— Stephen King

#around #aware #i #lot #must

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#beautiful #future #grand #greatness #i

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#california #came #cotton #down #flag

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#better #conditions #create #government #guarantee

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#been #earth #everybody #face #happy

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem. ↗

— John Thune

#action #biggest #cliff #control #debt

Sometimes he spend hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature." From "The Adventure of the German Student ↗

— Washington Irving

#literature #reading #food

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#ever #food #i #piece #read