#reading

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. ↗

— Ben Stein

#been #blog #corporate #evil #fight

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#jew #like #little #manual #playboy

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#daniel #dear #during #finding #fit

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#book #drama #film #film music #i

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#books #computer #computers #embroidery #history

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#always #before #day #had #made

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#beauty #reading #thinking #writing #you

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#both #common #copy #different #engage

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#began #book #brilliant #change #daisy

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#able #distinguish #population #produced #read