Common Reading Experience

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

    “The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”
    —William, Lord Beveridge (1879–1963)

    “After which you led me to water
    And bade me drink, which I did, owing to your kindness.
    You would not let me out for two days and three nights,
    Bringing me books bound in wild thyme and scented wild grasses
    As if reading had any interest for me ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “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)