I remember that already as a child I was often intensely…

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own…

— Arthur Frommer

It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.

— David Brooks

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

— Clyde Tombaugh

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

— Tyrus

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

— Tom DeLonge

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning…

— Ellie Goulding

A friend of yours has, I think, a huge collection of sock monkeys. I'd love to show those. When I go to people's homes…

— Andy Spade

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or…

— Walter Kirn

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

— Sudha Murty

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read…

— Francine Prose

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

— Alberto Manguel

“Never make fun of someone is they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

— Anonymous

“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

— Anonymous

“Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.”

— Joe Hill