Famous quotes containing the words actual and/or reading:
“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)