
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
“It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and reads secrets as jewels.”
“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 749)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three
In this story, humans have by the early 21st century explored the Solar System and sent not just one but two crewed ships to Alpha Centauri … despite which the characters moan endlessly about the dire state of the space program. “Eyes of Amber” would be another example of the Rusting Bridges [Rule]: No matter how much the space program you actually have has achieved, whether it’s first contact with aliens or trips to nearby stars, it can never have achieved as much as the space programs you can imagine would have achieved in its place, given that imaginary programs aren’t limited by issues of politics, funding, or engineering.
Review of “Eyes of Amber”, by Joan D. Vinge (as anthologized in New Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/yet-more-sf-about-women-by-women, 2015
2010s
“I will do all your reading, and I will tell you what to think about it.”
During his show as quoted in * https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-20-tm-836-story.html
WHAT’S THE RUSH? : Radio Loudmouth Rush Limbaugh Harangues Feminazis, Environmental Wackos and Commie-Libs While His Ratings Soar
Bob
Baker
Los Angeles Times
1991-01-20
1990s
“What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening”
Quoted by * 2018-07-24
'What You're Seeing... Is Not What's Happening.' People Are Comparing This Trump Quote to George Orwell
Mahita Gajanan
Time
https://time.com/5347737/trump-quote-george-orwell-vfw-speech/
2018, July 2018
“The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.”
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 13, “I Am Naumi/On Thairy” (p. 96)
“Find that person who, looking into your eyes, can read your heart.”
Original: (it) Trova quella persona che, guardandoti negli occhi, riesce a leggere il tuo cuore.
Source: prevale.net
As quoted by * Aaron Rupar
2020-08-03
“They are dying. That’s true. It is what it is.” Trump’s Axios interview was a disaster.
VOX
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/4/21354055/trump-axios-interview-jonathan-swan
2020, August 2020
Tucker Carlson The Long Side, From the Introduction https://www.tuckercarlson.com/
2020s, 2021
"A Hint to a young Person, for his better Improvement by Reading or Conversation"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
September 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/the-dogma-of-dianne-feinstein.html to Amy Coney Barrett
Works and Conversations http://www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=399
The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
My Country is the World (1984)
As quoted in "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han on watching her book become a phenomenon" in Vox (4 June 2019) https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18648808/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-jenny-han-interview
Source: The Masked City (2015), Chapter 16 (p. 210)
“The more you read and write, the better you think and live.”
Source: "Penn Badgley weighs in on the worst thing his 'Gossip Girl' character ever did" in TODAY https://www.today.com/popculture/penn-badgley-worst-thing-dan-humphrey-did-gossip-girl-t235509 (22 October 2021)
Source: An Urchin in the Storm (1987) "The Perils of Hope", p. 212
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005), Chapter 1 (p. 34)
Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005), Introduction (p. xvii)
“There were things to do, people to see, questions to ask. Books to read.”
Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 27 (p. 354)
Source: On her tough marriage https://www.zikoko.com/life/oldies/9-thought-provoking-quotes-from-the-literary-icon-buchi-emecheta/.
"Rebel with a cause: An interview with China’s most famous political cartoonist" in SAGE Journals https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422016657031a (29 June 2016)
2015-Present
Source: Foreword by Subramanian Swamy in Atri, N., & Sagar, M. A. (2017). Brainwashed republic.
Diachronicle: Days 57–221 (winter, year 0)
Source: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)
Actually said by Giorgos Seferis
Misattributed
Source: Introduction to Hawk’s Hill in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.), Sword and Sorceress 7 (1990), p. 183
Source: AME with D.J. MacHale https://www.reddit.com/r/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark/comments/l875no/ame_with_dj_machale/ (January 29, 2021)
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-interview-with-_37_b_11591236 During an interview (December 6 2017)
Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing, August 11, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Spaces-Anthology-Contemporary-African/dp/0435910108
Miscellaneous
Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=ww3ikzftnNsC&pg=PA82&dq=it%27s+dangerous+to+know+how+to+read+and+not+how+to+interpret+what+you%27re+reading&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOssCd-cr0AhWSHc0KHTQvDuQQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=it's%20dangerous%20to%20know%20how%20to%20read%20and%20not%20how%20to%20interpret%20what%20you're%20reading&f=false Ebony September 1995
"All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth, GoogleTechTalks, YouTube, May 29, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLBvCB2kr4Q,
Source: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-historian-without-studying-history-in-University
Source: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-historian-without-studying-history-in-University
Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 17, “To Keep it Holy” (p. 157; the reference is to the Holocaust)
"Interview: Nicolas Cage digs deep about ‘Pig,’ his favorite and most underrated of his own movies, and the role he’d love to play" in Awards Watch https://awardswatch.com/interview-nicolas-cage-digs-deep-about-pig-his-favorite-and-most-underrated-of-his-own-movies-and-the-role-hed-love-to-play/ (14 January 2022)
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 20, “Intellectuals” (p. 86)
Preserving Words and Worlds https://onbeing.org/programs/columba-stewart-and-getatchew-haile-preserving-words-and-worlds/ (19 January 2009)
"Questions and Answers for the Governor" https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/governorlocke/kids/questions.htm
Source: Home Truths (1859), Ch. II: "Repent, or Perish", p. 73
Matthew IV: 1–11, p. 26
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Matthew (1856)
“There are no indecipherable writings, any writing system produced by man can be read by man.”
Epigraphic Atlas of Petén Phase 1 http://cemyk.org/pages/en/publications-projects.php
Original: Nella vita al vostro fianco, cercate di trovare una persona che sappia leggere il vostro cuore e, soprattutto, una persona che sappia regalare ogni giorno un sorriso alla vostra anima.
Source: prevale.net
“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”
Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/