Read Quotes · Page 80

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

— Chelsea Cain

“I think when we read we have to hear with no ears and realistically see with no eyes and doing that does…

— U.L. Harper

“You can be anywhere you want in the world, meet different people and learn more than a hundred things in a matter…

— C.M. Okonkwo

My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read.

— Fawad Khan

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful…

— Wentworth Miller

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read…

— Tony Wilson

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

— Virginia Henley

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

— Boyd K. Packer

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story…

— Casey Kasem

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it.…

— Marilynne Robinson

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a…

— Eddie Campbell

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I…

— David Johansen

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison,…

— John Green

I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you…

— Jenny Mollen

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of…

— Ravi Shankar

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

— Andrea Riseborough

“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.”

— Amit Kalantri

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read…

— Zach Cregger

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

— Joel Kinnaman

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

— Xavi

“Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.”

— Amit Kalantri

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well…

— John Heath-Stubbs

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read,…

— Gabrielle Dubois

Invariably, when people read the headline about Martin Shkreli, they hate Martin Shkreli. When they get to know Martin Shkreli, they love…

— Martin Shkreli

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean,…

— Tucker Max

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work…

— Amy Bloom

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is…

— James Patterson

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

— Charles Grodin

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

— Twinkle Khanna

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the…

— Rebecca Sugar

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in…

— Constance Marie

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

— James Wolk

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't…

— Damien Chazelle

I started doing Pilates when I was in my mid-40s. I thought it was called 'pie-lattes' because I didn't hear anyone talk…

— Susan Lucci

In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men's…

— Danny Brown