“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.” IfsHardReadingOpportunityPleasureAttentionOur LivesLandQuietConversationIntimateRestaurantsDistractionNoisyLand Of OpportunityPleasure Of ReadingIntimate Conversation Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.” MenMeanBookCountryReadingForgetLibertyBoysLandBuriedBe A ManHistory BooksLand Of The Free Author:Sidney Buchman
“In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.” WayYoungReadingAbilityLandDividesConspiracyThings Change Author:Patricia T. O'Conner
“I try to be personal, but that's not me, either. What seems to work best, and the tweets I enjoy reading the most, are when comedians just give jokes. It's a great joke of the day thing, especially revolving around current events. But that's not my forte either, so I find myself in no man's land with Twitter. I don't particularly enjoy giving me out to everyone.” MenGivingTryingSeemsReadingEnjoyLandEventsJokesCurrentsComedianTweetRevolvingCurrent EventsForte Author:John Cho
“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.” BookReadingLiteratureViewsLandApproachDistanceLandscapeCharmVisibleFairyFadesThornsBriars Book:Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller Source: Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller
“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!” ReadingLandFrontsFieldsProjectsInstrumentsManagersHistorianEngineeringEngineersMathematicianDocumentsLegislationCalculatingOperatorsCoordinatesChainsawSurveyorsLand SurveyorBylaws Author:Mark Mason
“You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron de la Beckwith - the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers - they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask "Is this America?" We can no longer ignore the fact that America is NOT the "land of the free and the home of the brave."” KnowsMenGivingMadeFactsHomeAmericaReadingAsksLandHe ManPaperSickBraveAnother TimeByronLand Of The Free Author:Fannie Lou Hamer