#read

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig. ↗

— Lou Gerstner

#chinese #dig #go #history #i

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it. ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#ever #everything #gift #gives #good

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs. ↗

— Gale Gordon

#dogs #going #i #i love #love

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#any #big #channel #day #discovery

Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, don’t make them your steady intellectual diet, any more than you would eat at the most elegant of restaurants every day. It would be too much. Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. ↗

— Alan Jacobs

#age

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#being #draws #first #get #holding

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#back #gets #gives #just #man

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? ↗

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#author #ever #more #much #observed

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#answer #anyone #appeals #dark #dream

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#dreadful #god #his #his holiness #holiness