Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

    How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of a common mint.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    It’s been my experience that every time I think I know “where it’s at,” it’s usually somewhere else.
    Blake Edwards (b. 1922)