#read

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british empire #british press #defeats #empire #forgets

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.' ↗

— John Krasinski

#better #book #classics #ernest #ernest hemingway

We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#bread #earn #grateful #hearts #loyal

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#found #gardening #i #increasingly #job

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.' ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#appear #because #bill #booth #business

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#cannot #does #future #how #illiterate

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#anything #could #had #hanging #him

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#am #author #election #good #i

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? ↗

— Bob Uecker

#clubhouse #else #explain #how #letter