In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
In the comics, there's a lot to sort of digest with Five. He's 58-years-old. He's trapped in this body. He has a… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have… — Gunnhild Øyehaug Copy Share Image
I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new… — Patrick Cox Copy Share Image
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“What reading does...is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not sequenced of lived moments, but a destiny.” — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book… — Aurora Rose Reynolds Copy Share Image
The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time… — Rita Stradling Copy Share Image
Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You… — Raine Maida Copy Share Image
People will say you should quit running if you're a slow runner. Or you should quit basketball if you can't dribble with… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
