No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role,… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons,… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Notes on 'Camp' talks a lot about homosexuality and androgyny and performance and a false seriousness, nit-picking the trivial things and making… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“If God give you a status, don't turn yourself to a statue. Don't become a monument. God still want to reside inside… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name,… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Never, ever exercise in front of a TV or while reading. You lose 50 percent of the benefit of the exercise by… — Kevin R. Stone Copy Share Image
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the… — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his… — Edith Grossman Copy Share Image
A lot of people I read start off as skeptics or nonbelievers. There comes a point in every reading when you see… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Both of my parents have a really sharp eye for reading people through their homes. Reading people through the kind of person… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd… — Yvette Cooper Copy Share Image
