#reading

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#decision #four #i #interested #make

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#assume #because #been #context #easier

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#bed #done #like #often #privately

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#being #book #days #gain #hours

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dictionaries #distraction #enough #excellent #impossible

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#day #deposits #economy #encouraging #every

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#day #hour #how #i #obsessed

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#brink #errors #falling #great #great art

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#i #lot #reading #really #room