#read

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready. ↗

— Paul Waner

#back #bat #draw #draws #first

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. ↗

— Emily Watson

#child #grew #i #lot #loved

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#defend #god #god grants #grants #guard

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#could #find #god #i #memory

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. ↗

— Simone Weil

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil. ↗

— Len Wein

#believe #believes #brotherhood #calls #character

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#better #choices #getting #getting better #i

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#ever #food #i #piece #read

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#enjoyment #fade #habit #lasts #only