#reading

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buying #reading #worth #worth reading

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#day #decided #doing #effort #fiction

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#best #choosing #directors #every #i

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#kid #read #reading #stand

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. ↗

— Serge Schmemann

#between #information #lines #manipulated #old

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

There's so much more to a book than just the reading. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#just #more #much #reading #than

How well he's read, to reason against reading! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#how #read #reading #reason #well

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds. ↗

— Shakira

#air #born #creativity #discovering #era