Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saoirse Ronan

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

Samuel Pepys

I know not how to abstain from reading.

Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

William Faulkner

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

William Faulkner

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Whittaker Chambers

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

Whittaker Chambers

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

Ronald Reagan

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

William Walker

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

Will Rogers

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

Will Rogers

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

Will Rogers

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

W. Averell Harriman

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

W. C. Fields

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

Zosia Mamet

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

Zachary Quinto

If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to know him as much as I could, but because it was much more about his relationship to this particular situation, to The Guardian, to Laura Poitras, and to Ewen MacAskill, and Edward Snowden, I was able to really learn a lot about him from reading his book and reading his many articles and accounts of that time.

Zachary Levi

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

Zane Grey

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Ziggy Marley

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

Zacarias Moussaoui

I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after reviewing the jury verdict and reading how the jurors set aside their emotions and disgust for me and focused on the law and the evidence ... I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors.

William Hazlitt

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

William Eggleston

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

Wendell Berry

It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Wendell Berry

We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Walter Mosley

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Vladimir Nabokov

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Vladimir Nabokov

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Wolfgang Tillmans

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

Wolf Blitzer

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

William Osler

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Zig Ziglar

Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.