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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.
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As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
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You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
