#reading

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#african #bush #cancer #central #chad

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#comes #derivative #good #good writing #i

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#four #glows #hand #i #love

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. ↗

— Goh Chok Tong

#child #enjoyed #i #reading #wanted

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#easy #easy reading #few #great #greek

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#book #compiled #completed #done #i

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#get #hasn #lady #look #motion

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone. ↗

— Samuel West

#bus #day #good #i #left