#reading

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#down #i #intend #laid #laughter

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#good #i #just #make #me

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#becomes #cannot #control #hearing #hearing aids

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear. ↗

— Brian May

#between #each #fresh #gig #giving

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#achieve #acquired #along #amount #effect

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#best #best work #done #droves #ever

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#battlefield #bible #course #court #courts