#read

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accept #access #back #century #done

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle. ↗

— John Singleton

#already #cool #filmmaker #find #fun

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#big #brave #carry #emily #everywhere

There's so much more to a book than just the reading. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#just #more #much #reading #than

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #god #govern #hearts #i

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked. ↗

— William Shatner

#basic #books #core #especially #humanistic

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me. ↗

— William Shatner

#frightens #i #me #read #recognize

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me. ↗

— William Shatner

#me #more #need #political #scene

My mother taught me to read. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#mother #read #taught