"Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading habits might well be changing. People who pay for novels might overlap significantly with those who engage in Twitter and Facebook."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“If you want to live a happy life, donâ€™t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.”
“How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?”
“Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.”

Source : "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.
“Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.”

Source : "Dish's Charlie Ergen: Networks' Criticism of Ad-Skipping Service Is 'Disingenuous'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2012.
“Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.”
“I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.”
“It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.”
“I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).”

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