#reading

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#brought #down #earth #hear #led

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#bass #bass player #ended #even #games

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

— John Ruskin

#books #few #hours #life #none

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#career #done #good #good time #had

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

— Goh Chok Tong

#child #enjoyed #i #reading #wanted

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. ↗

— William Safire

#deal #editing #find #great #great deal

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#brought #crossword #doing #moments #puzzles

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. ↗

— Serge Schmemann

#between #information #lines #manipulated #old

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made