#reading

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#been #beyond #congress #had #hard

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#four #glows #hand #i #love

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

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#expect #experience #i #me #readers

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#equivalent #head #instead #own #reading

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#hour #i #known #never #reading

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

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. ↗

— William Shatner

#authors #classic #enjoyed #i #isaac

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made