#reading

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#contributing #done #information #much #need

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#any #conversation #dialogue #end #feel

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper. ↗

— John Hull

#different #fairly #few #first #had

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#leave #lot #main #main source #reading

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #reading #writing #beauty

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#journey #reading #travel #change

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#reading #friendship

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#humor #reading #humor