We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In reading Ameen Rihani... I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice... and my envy of Mr.… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image
“Reading the written Word points to the Living Word and says to us, “Go to Jesus.” If we do not go to… — Stephen Chappell Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an… — Kate Atkinson 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 bought you something" Willows blurts out. "You bought...What?" Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and… — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and… — Vindri Prachmitasari Copy Share Image
I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things… — John Major Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It’s really sad, because that’s what my show is all about — what is going… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it.… — Matthew D. Forgenti Copy Share Image
I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
There is no difference between me and Netanyahu in reading the threat of Iran. There is no daylight between us on this… — Isaac Herzog Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image