#read

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

#base #called #eighty #embraces #everybody

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#does #guy #i #if i could #know

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#bring #him #into #limelight #ready

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. ↗

— John Dryden

#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#books #cannot #completely #different #different subjects

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#because #books #find #hope #i

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ↗

— Will Durant

#declaration #independence #make #nature #never

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#already #call #connection #had #i

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#experimental #fascinating #i #other #people

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#i #long #long time #mitchell #old