#reading

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#art #half #learned #more #only

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. ↗

— Gene Barry

#attitude #creates #given #guess #guys

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#i #life #live #looking #much

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. ↗

— John Barton

#conclusions #draw #experiment #own #poem

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted

They're book addicts. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #reading #humor

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street. ↗

— Jim Trelease

#reading #television #business

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. ↗

— Aneta Cruz

#reading #words-of-wisdom #writing #imagination

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#reading #writing-books

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#learn