Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joey Santiago

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Joel Kinnaman

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

Joan Rivers

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.

Jimmy Wales

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

Jimmy Wales

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

Jimmy Fallon

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

George Ade

Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.

James Taylor

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

James Patterson

Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

James Patterson

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

James Patterson

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

James Patterson

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

James Madison

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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.

Emmanuelle Beart

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

Emma Watson

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

Emma Watson

It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.

John McGahern

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.