#reads

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. ↗

— Trent Lott

#easily #established #lasts #never #once

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#book #compete #different #magazine #minds

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#cards #class #down #fear #hands

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#hundred #man #me #read #reads

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#because #emphasis #fell #first #her

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #asleep #believer #connection #deep

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#disbelief #government #readers #reporters #spoken

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. ↗

— Ron Paul

#diseases #expect #gets #government #must

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even