Quotes with non-reading

Quotes 61 till 80 of 309.

  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Bill Laswell Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Amos Oz Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
    Source: Interview
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Janet Malcolm Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
    Janet Malcolm
     
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  • Igor Stravinsky Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Victor Hugo For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bruno Dumont For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Golden Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
    Source: Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Rufus Choate Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
    Rufus Choate
    American lawyer, orator, and Congressman (1799 - 1859)
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  • William Zinsser Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Bill Gurley Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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