The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure…

With so much effort, & their reading them this now

— Anonymous

All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it.…

— Nick Hornby

“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and…

— Nick Hornby (Author

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

“I hate physical effort.”

— Emmanuelle Alt

“She wanted to walk until her body and mind were exhausted. Her snug house felt like a distant goal, a place she had to…

— Nicci French

When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

— Kevin Shields

I want money to replace mental energy and physical effort.

— Justin Kan

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

— Mark Rippetoe

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

— Pierre de Coubertin

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But…

— Chogyam Trungpa

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

— Guy Forget

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

— Jane Jacobs

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

— Moshe Feldenkrais

In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the…

— Charlton Heston