“I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.” BookHardReadingBloodConstitutionIronAtomsPlatoButlersSkimming Author:Frederick William Robertson
“I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo” WayLongStillsHardRememberReadingImagineBloodUnderstoodManageNecksImagine ThatEconomistAdequateZoosPumpsGiraffe Author:Robert Solow
“My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.” I CanHumorReadingMorningBloodLowsDoctorsPressureNewspapersBlood Pressure Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsPersonsDifferentReadingAbilityEnemyBloodMetsLonelyBraveFleshShouldersRelateDifferent PeoplesFlesh And Blood Author:Amy Poehler
“I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.” ThinkingKindSaidSpiritReadingActorsLiteratureWrittenBloodModernScreensPollutionFinestEmergingWorth ReadingKenneth Author:Jack Nicholson
“I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.” TryingMindBookFactsReadingBitsHalfBloodHarry PotterPotters Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.” DoeHas BeensEyeReadingLinesBloodPagesSpreadHis EyesBent Author:Rainer Maria Rilke