Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

Alan Furst

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Al Yankovic

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

Alain de Botton

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Charles R. Swindoll

Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

Charles Clark

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

Charles Barkley

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

Blaise Pascal

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Blaise Pascal

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Blaise Pascal

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

Billie Piper

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

Bill Hicks

What are you reading for?

Bruce Dickinson

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

Brian Regan

So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I've always liked Fig Newtons. I'm reading the label to make sure everything's fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side.

Brian Regan

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

Breckin Meyer

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Arthur Smith

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Arthur Smith

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Anton Yelchin

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

Bruce Jenner

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Edwidge Danticat

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

Edwidge Danticat

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

Edwidge Danticat

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

Eckhart Tolle

Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Edward Norton

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.

Richard G. Scott

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.

Ricky Gervais

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

Bret Easton Ellis

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.