Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Henry Miller

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Cassandra Clare

To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.

George Eliot

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

George Eliot

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

George Eliot

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Gore Vidal

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

Gore Vidal

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

Gillian Flynn

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Harvey Milk

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Harvey Weinstein

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

Harold Ramis

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

Griffin Dunne

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

James Blunt

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

Jamaica Kincaid

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

Jaime Murray

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

Jacqueline Woodson

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.

Jacques Derrida

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Barzun

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Jacques Barzun

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

James Gleick

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

Isaac Disraeli

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Isaac Disraeli

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Isaac Asimov

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Isaac Asimov

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

Jeaniene Frost

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

Jim Edmonds

I honestly think people are tired of reading about me.

Jim Evans

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Jeremy Lin

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Jennifer Haigh

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

Jeff Bezos

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Jeff Bezos

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Jeff Bridges

You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.