Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ekaterina Gordeeva

The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels'

Jimmy Fallon

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

John Corbett

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

John Burnham Schwartz

Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

Joe Abercrombie

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Joan Chen

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

Joan Collins

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

Lois Lowry

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

Lloyd Alexander

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Manuel Puig

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Manolo Blahnik

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

Mao Zedong

To read too many books is harmful.

Madeleine L'Engle

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

Madeleine L'Engle

In reading we must become creators.

Lynne Truss

The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

Louis XIV

I see no point in reading.

Louisa May Alcott

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

John Green

If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.

John Green

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

John Green

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

John Green

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

John Green

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

John Garfield

Reading is important.

John Gardner

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

John Fowles

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Lisa Kleypas

It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

Linda Sue Park

What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

Linda Sue Park

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

Linda McCartney

There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.

Linda Ronstadt

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

Linda Grant

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

Linda Fiorentino

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.