#reading

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#adjustment #back #because #book #challenging

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#learning #like #love #mail #making

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#believe #desire #doing #help #i

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#attention #behaves #different #differently #movie

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#i #i wish #much #pleasure #reading

I never stopped reading. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#never #reading #stopped

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#biased #hearing #material #own #reading

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#chamberlain #done #had #i #kid