#reading

Reading is my greatest luxury. ↗

— Louise Brown

#luxury #reading

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. ↗

— Louise Brown

#been #books #cumulative #hearing #importance

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#i #mark #mark twain #reading #shakespeare

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#book #possession #reading #substitute

Attraction is explained as a function of reincarnation: people who knew each other in past lives are helpless in the face of an emotion which has passed, untouched, through bodily death. Who wouldn’t be? ↗

— Brenda Walker

#reading-by-moonlight #death

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#other #reading #thing

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#freedom #political #political freedom #reading

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computer #frustrating #hardware #manuals #reading

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. ↗

— Frank Crane

#reading #sort #spend #stuff #time