#read

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reading #self-discovery #youth #life

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#came #ears #greek #mythology #our

Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. ↗

— B.L. Brown

#good-read #inspirational #life-change #love #peace-on-earth

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem. ↗

— James Lovelock

#been #disinformation #global #global warming #main

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh? ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#because #before #car #care #eh

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#before #beyond #book #compare #converse

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#boyfriend #even #forced #get #i

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#man #music #musicologist #read #who

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#already #also #april #been #camp