Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Williams

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Michel Houellebecq

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Michel Houellebecq

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ...

Martin Sorrell

Formula One gives a platform to companies like Rolex - and that's just in media space, watching television or reading newspapers, digital or physical. You see the brand in the context of the competition and bring it to the attention of everybody on a regular basis.

Marie Dressler

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

Marie Corelli

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

Marge Piercy

I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

Ted Rall

Anyone should be able to read comics.

Mallory Ortberg

Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.

Mallory Ortberg

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

Mahatma Gandhi

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Mahatma Gandhi

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

John C. Maxwell

There is absolutely no way to increase your income quicker than reading 30 minutes a day

Johannes Kepler

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

John Adams

Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.

Louise Erdrich

It was just enough to sit there without words.

James Lipton

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

James Lipton

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

James Laughlin

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

James Laughlin

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

James Laughlin

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.

Joe Queenan

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

Joan D. Vinge

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Joan Didion

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

Joan Didion

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Jim James

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Erik Larson

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

Erik Larson

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Eric Thomas

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

Eric Thomas

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

Eric Thomas

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Eric Thomas

And when you finish reading, read some more.