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Letter "R" » Reading
«Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.»
«Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power»
«I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.»
Author: Spike Milligan
(Actor, Humorist)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
but then, reads, Shakespeare, sonnet, Sonnets
«Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Reading
| Keywords:
bottom, echoes, familiar, listening, On Your Toes, The Bottom, toes, Wade, waded, wades, wading
«Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.»
«I read part of it all the way through.»
«Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, mind reading, natural world, oppression, scholars, senseless, The Natural
«I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
catalog, sooner, timetable
«I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it»
«I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Internet,
Reading
| Keywords:
code, complexity, Dr., Dr. Seuss, Dr, groups, incompatibility, in terms of, messages, regularly, software, tax code, the US
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