#read

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. ↗

— John Astin

#bible #his #many #poe #read

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#books #could #explain #had #knew

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ↗

— Richard Bach

#already #friends #miles #separate #someone

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#collapse #day #his #lazy #most

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. ↗

— Richard Bach

#arrived #begin #fast #fly #knowing

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#diseases #during #everywhere #extinction #land

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#bread #cast #comes #floating #human

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#already #american #announcing #appointments #been

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#content #day #dread #last #long