Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

Mario Benedetti

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Batali

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Michael Caine

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

Michael Caine

I spent my life in the library reading books.

Mason Cooley

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

Mason Cooley

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

Mason Cooley

Reading civilized the inner life.

Mason Cooley

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

Mason Cooley

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

Mason Cooley

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Mason Cooley

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Mary Karr

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

Mary Archer

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Michael Grant

Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.

Michael Franti

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

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.

Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

Mary Wollstonecraft

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

Marshall McLuhan

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

Mark Gatiss

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

Paul Rudd

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.