#reading

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#around #changing #come #constantly #day

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ↗

— Arnold Lobel

#reading #love

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

#dancing #reading #dance

The world was hers for the reading. ↗

— Betty Smith

#feminist #reading #world

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ↗

— Mark Twain

#be careful #books #careful #die #health

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#reading #something #worth #worth reading #write

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ↗

— Mary Archer

#balance sheets #extraordinary #fact #fascinating #make

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ↗

— Will Rogers

#fence #few #kinds #learn #learns