#reading

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#books #fully #gets #information #kind

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #east #establishing #ethical #ethics

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. ↗

— Quintilian

#form #minds #must #our #rather

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#day #i #i quit #never #playboy

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#garbage #immoral #newspaper #people #reading

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space. ↗

— Henry Reed

#beyond #dimension #humans #legacy #readings

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#random #seriously-i-m-kidding #worth-reading #funny

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#everywhere #finds #home #homes #immigrants