“Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.” KnowsMayRealHappensReadingLanguageNatureOppositesHastySyntaxIntricacy Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.” KindReadingBitsTechnologyCenturyApproachOppositesHarderHanging OutWidows19th CenturyIphoneReedsToddlerFaustComplete Opposites Author:Rufus Wainwright
“I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.” SaidHateReadingHonestOppositesFolksBeing HonestEmailOutraged Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by blocking out all other viewpoints but their own, only reading their own propaganda and only associating with each other.” ThinkingReadingDangerousOppositesFeministBlockPropagandaOpen MindedViewpoints Author:Dave Sim
“There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!” FeelsWritingDoeLyingReadingLostLinesPagesOppositesDenialDiariesLiedCorrectionsSingle Line Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” WayGivingFeelsPersonsBookRealRealityReadingImaginationAttentionHealthyOppositesGive MeContactBlissAccomplishedDisorderSmarterDeficitBetter PersonAttention Deficit DisorderToo Real Author:Nora Ephron
“The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.” TwoBookEndsLyingReadingOppositesEveningCouchesSleepyLying DownBookcases Author:Christopher Isherwood
“I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.” IfsThinkingKnowsBelieveMomentsReadingI BelieveSkyNegativeOppositesDiedCloudsLightningBoltsFrictionOpposites Attract Author:Chris Colfer