Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Olds

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Shenae Grimes

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

Shakira

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

Sergio Leone

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Scott Turow

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

Stevie Wonder

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

Steven Millhauser

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

Steven Pressfield

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

Steven Pinker

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Sue Monk Kidd

In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves.

Stevie Jackson

I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.

Steven Tyler

The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.

Richard Smalley

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

Richard Serra

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

Richard Steele

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

Richard Grossman

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

Jimmy Page

Nowadays, we're more into staying in our rooms and reading Nietzsche.

Matt Smith

Right now, we're dominating, ... We're making ad-justments and reading our keys. Dominating.

It's just about being in the right place at the right time and reading the quarterback.

I want to teach them how to read to children. It's really very different from reading to yourself.

Reading too much into backlog and bookings can be misleading.

Sonny Perdue

reading is one of those things you can do your whole life.

Janet Fitch

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

Janet Fitch

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Janet Evanovich

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

Etgar Keret

Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."

Etgar Keret

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.

Ernest Dimnet

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Ernest Gaines

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

Erin Morgenstern

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

Evangeline Lilly

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

Christopher Hitchens

Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.

Moby

I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.