Quotes about reading
reading scripts want
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?' Jason Blum
reading age records
I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures. Jason Aldean
reading play eras
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable. Jane Smiley
reading writing two
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
reading tubs sound
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
reading book trying
Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true. Richard G. Scott
reading towns small-town
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian. Ricky Gervais
reading land boeing
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. Bret Easton Ellis
reading thinking tennis
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. Boris Becker
reading son years
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
reading book reading-books
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. Bob Edwards
reading years ten
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich. Bob Dylan
reading imagination worry
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? Billy Campbell
reading light circles
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow... Billy Collins
reading thinking differences
Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.
reading thinking numbers
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a garrulous poet at a poetry reading who spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the poem before reading it, I've written a number of satirical poems about other poets.
reading festivals tents
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! Bruce Dickinson
reading doctors two
So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I've always liked Fig Newtons. I'm reading the label to make sure everything's fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side. Brian Regan
reading pages speed
I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.
reading mean thinking
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. Breckin Meyer
reading home play
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. Arthur Smith
reading exercise night
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.
reading mind facts
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. Arthur Schopenhauer
reading thinking mere
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
reading trouble hours
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
reading philosophical thinking
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
reading trying theory
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. Anton Yelchin
reading kids important
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff. Bruce Jenner
reading ideas iraq
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of. Edwidge Danticat
reading believe people
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
reading writing mean
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.
reading listening matter
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet. Eckhart Tolle
reading humility compassion
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.