During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was merely a child when I opened a book 9a scroll to be more specific). What I read within those lines… — Daegus (43rd King Of Atlantis Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job,… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
You know, if you read a book, once you get to chapter five and stuff starts stepping up, it doesn't mean chapters… — Tyson Kidd Copy Share Image
As you read a book, it's hard to turn into another page unless you understand the first one.. just like LOVE.. it's… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write… — Bun B Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader Once and its sequel Then are two parts of the same story, but they were written and published as two… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“During the spring break I read a book called Everlasting. It was a really great book to read. It was about how… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“So we introduced a token system.9 The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M.… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“I have a few friends who still moan that paper is the only way to read a book, but I’d rather have… — Terry Schott Copy Share Image
When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Confidence is a huge turn-on, but I like a man who's also kind and gentle. It's sexy when a guy listens and… — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time… — Kathryn Magendie Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I read a book on candles and got curious. I followed it up by taking a course with famous London-based candle maker… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula'… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
“The Tomorrow Man theory. It’s pretty basic. Today, right here, you are who you are. Tomorrow, you will be who you will… — Chuck Hogan Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
![“During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42c/charles-darwin-507_biographies_during-my-second-year-at-edinburgh-1826_1350666.jpg)
![“The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy…” quote by Lily Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf3/lily-collins-1760_book_the-fans-reacted-very-positively-to-me-b_1194676.jpg)
![“[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who choose to spend more than a few moments cultivating their relationship with nature. Paying attention is the key: we interact with each other when we allow it to engage our attention…” quote by Priscilla Stuckey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b4/priscilla-stuckey-84666_books_but-just-as-unseen-worlds-unfold-to-thos_1861046.jpg)
