A Quote by William McFee

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

William McFee

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Pleasure Reading Sea Unknown

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William McFee
American - Writer
June 15, 1881 - July 2, 1966

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

John Ashbery

There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

Edith Durham

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

Neil Gaiman

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

Rebecca Solnit

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.

Donalyn Miller

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Clive James

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

John Lennon

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

Jo Walton

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

Ruskin Bond

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

William Hazlitt

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Brian Grazer

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.