Beta Reading Quotes & Sayings

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgement. — Paul Fussell

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. — Sophie Kinsella

When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture? — Leonard Shlain

Now let's say you've finished your first draft. Congratulations! Good job! Have a glass of champagne, send out for pizza, do whatever it is you do when you've got something to celebrate. If you have someone who has been impatiently waiting to read your novel-a spouse, let's say, someone who has perhaps been working nine to five and helping to pay the bills while you chase your dream-then this is the time to give up the goods ... if, that is, your first reader or readers will promise not to talk to you about the book until you are ready to talk to them about it. — Stephen King

If you want to feel like your life isn't too bad, take a Greyhound bus, Aleah. We should all take Greyhound buses. — Geoff Herbach

The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice. — Richard Shusterman

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.
That's one reason why I keep reading and writing. — Toba Beta

If you don't find any good reading out there, you make one. — Toba Beta

Tie rock to tail and throw kitty in
lake. Watch kitty sink, ha! — Julie Kagawa

I don't think I'm a flaming radical. — Jeanne Phillips

I don't want you because I expect you to swoop in and rescue me and make everything all right.I don't want you because you're beautiful. None of that matters. you could never be a bad bargain to me, because ... you're you.
And I love you. — Zoe Marriott

A good reading strengthens the soul. — Toba Beta

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake. — Ben Elton

Transcendence is transformation. — Peter Watts

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin

I have caressed a small child's hair, and in doing so, know there is a God. — Lewis Bryan

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley

Reading is an activity of civilized beings. — Toba Beta

Your leaving will not be solved by your coming back. But one does not preclude the other. And maybe that is always what there is to fear, in everything that happens-what we choosee to love to will choose to forsake us. — Helen Humphreys

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing!
Words keep introducing their friends to you. — Toba Beta

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site. — Jay Chiat