“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.” WayWritingYearsBookEndsRealityReadingTalkingConsciousLaysCoreDialogueReading BooksContinuingWriting A BookBook ReadingBook WritingVisceralBorges Book:With Borges Source: With Borges
“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.” MayLittlesReadingVisionClearSecurityFieldsConsciousGlassesWideTalesUnconsciousOutlookDiariesClosenessGazingCandor Book:Varia Source: Varia
“It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.” WaySelfReadingImaginationConsciousDrinkingAlcoholRitualCrucialSelf ConsciousIngenious Author:Daphne Merkin
“I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.” SelfValuesReadingConsciousReviewsSelf Conscious Author:Mary Stuart Masterson
“I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.” LifeBelieveArtLyingReadingI BelievePrayerPrayingConsciousArt IsResponseBelieve In GodPraying To God Author:Reverend Malcolm Boyd
“I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.” IdeasReadingActorsLinesConsciousGesturesPreconceived Ideas Author:Dennis Hopper
“If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.” IfsNeedsTryingBodyAgeChoicesReadingPerspectiveActivityConsciousYogaGlassesYour BodyStatementsFinding YourselfHittingReading Glasses Author:Deepak Chopra
“As I've gotten older there's just more awareness around what is good for my body internally, externally, physically. It's all about reading labels and being aware and conscious of what goes in.” BodyReadingAwarenessConsciousLabels Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery, I made a more conscious attempt with The Heavenly Table to do that myself.” MadeBookReadingLinesSituationKnownViolenceConsciousTablesMiseryHeavenlyReading Books Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.” BookRealHomeDreamBigsKidsAbleWantedArtistReadingPathFansCollegeBecomingConsciousSevenRadioMotherhoodThanksLeftiesStudsGreat Fans Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the same time, you're conscious of, "This is important. I owe something to my ten year old self right now. I need to respect that." I need for that kid who is obsessively reading comic books, I need there to be something rewarding for him where he's like, I didn't waste my time. I know what this is.” ImportantBookDoneKidsReadingConsciousComicComic BookWasting My TimeOld Self Author:Matt Nix
“I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to them. If I'm not at least understanding that the parent's got to be there, and the kid's got to be there, together, then I don't feel like I'm doing my job. I hope that the language or the dialogue or the way characters interact entertains parents - when I'm playing with my own kids, I'm entertaining myself too, as well as them.” BookCharacterKidsTogetherReadingLanguageParentUnderstandingConsciousDialogue Author:Jon J Muth
“There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more conscious and reading local message boards before going to certain towns, just to see if people were making bullshit idle threats on the Internet.” PeopleMomentsReadingInternetConsciousThreatBullshitIdle Author:Jay Reatard
“I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.” KnowsWritingMindHumansChoicesReadingWonderHappenedShareConsciousUnconsciousHuman MindFascinatedWriting And ReadingConscious And Unconscious Author:Anne Roiphe
“Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over.” StatesLyingReadingGrowsConditionsPlanetsConsciousLabelsErasContentmentAssessmentRetrospectSatellitesClassificationEludeClinicalsMisusedElude You Author:Lionel Shriver