Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I'm reading it. It's just something you respond… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt… — David Small Copy Share Image
When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.” — Amber Sparks Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist. — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it. — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
Books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves — CJoybell C Copy Share Image
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