#reading

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#contemplation #had #his #known #life

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#exact #full #maketh #man #reading

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. ↗

— Dave Barry

#column #crazy #declining #fact #good

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#diseases #during #everywhere #extinction #land

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

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#basically #book #character #defined #director

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#constant #father #i #life #my life

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool. ↗

— Fred Durst

#cool #god #kid #life #like

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#age #any #brain #certain #certain age