#read

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#bad #books #children #difficult #down

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#already #because #does #external #fiction

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old. ↗

— Mario Batali

#america #any #because #becomes #bread

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. ↗

— Mario Batali

#bow #came #come #cook #did

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. ↗

— Mario Batali

#beat #cancer #curing #disease #food

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#friends #get #get married #girlfriends #handle

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#break #break up #fallen #form #i

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#american children #believe #children #commandments #crime

I'm at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I've got my dogs as surrogates, but I'm ready for kids. ↗

— Michael Bay

#dogs #get #get married #got #i