“A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money”
Earl Warren
“The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”
Kahlil Gibran
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
Mark Twain
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
J. D. Salinger
“I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen -- by any illiterate retard -- in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money.”
Lou Reed
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
Gore Vidal
