Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
I think my passion is skincare because I've had so many different skin problems that I'm just fascinated by it. I find… — Brandi Glanville Copy Share Image
Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“One part of the study looked specifically at the impact on students involved in theater. Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
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“Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in… — Sheri Cobb South Copy Share Image
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn't have necessarily even… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
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Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
