#reads

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american #american experience #experience #important #most

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#long #men #our #parade #proper

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. ↗

— Trent Lott

#easily #established #lasts #never #once

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#book #compete #different #magazine #minds

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#cards #class #down #fear #hands

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#hundred #man #me #read #reads

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#because #emphasis #fell #first #her

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #asleep #believer #connection #deep