#read

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#assumptions #conviction #must #ready #stick

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#book #develop #enjoy #i #i always

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#copy #editors #every #machines #more

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. ↗

— Julie Walters

#big #birthdays #bothered #dreadful #felt

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it. ↗

— Vince Gill

#funny #funny thing #going #into #majority

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#bad #books #course #craving #duty

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another. ↗

— Peter Welch

#barber #bookstores #business #businesses #check

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. ↗

— Barry White

#high #high school #i #i quit #make

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell. ↗

— Barry White

#barry white #company #launch #out #put

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. ↗

— George H. White

#accuse #crime #enough #even #fair