The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it... I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story… — Rebecca Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight…what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and… — J. Paul Hunter Copy Share Image
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I understand that more and more children under the age of 10 go to bed without having something read to them or… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and… — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
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My dad and my brother took me over to England a few times to train with various clubs. My brother basically ended… — Gylfi Sigurdsson Copy Share Image
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it,… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
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I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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