When you have a full page of well-written dialogue that has a thought process to it, it is pretty easy to memorize. It's a lot easier to memorize than if you're in a scene and other people are talking, and you have maybe one word or one sentence that you have to interject at the right time and in a natural way.
Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.
People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?
It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.
When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.
I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like that. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic undertakings you could attempt.
I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
The [scouts] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about