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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer. Sam Weller
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Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye. Seamus Heaney
aloud books future higher men
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. Garson Kanin
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If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it. Terence Winter
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text. Mal Peet
aloud force level
One thing you're not aloud to do is escalate the level of force being used. Jason Lewis
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If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us. Karen Joy Fowler
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I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work. Ruth Rendell
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The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written. Kass James
books might
There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again. Norman MacCaig
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There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do. Peter Kent
books books-and-reading favor program
We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure. Adam Rothberg
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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore. James Browning
books-and-reading burn burns soon
Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. Heinrich Heine
books fall love trying
I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson
books fairy stories telling
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
books hours local spent
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. Nikki Grimes
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is. Alan Watts
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
higher fewer
The higher you go, the fewer women there are. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
higher
The higher up I went, the less happy I was. Dave Chappelle
higher rising students
We have to get students rising to that higher standard. John Winn
higher naturally raise software stocks trade
We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar. Patrick Mason
higher law past quality submit
We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival. Bill Donabedian
higher prices
Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer. Charles Holliday
higher life people
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. S. Jay Olshansky
higher
Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I. Alexis de Tocqueville
higher percentage trying
We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them. Mark Richt
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. Charles Dickens
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. Charles Dickens
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. Charles Dickens
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. Charles Dickens
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not. Charles Caleb Colton
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned. Charles Caleb Colton