The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually… — Jennifer Kaufman Copy Share Image
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it. — Shenae Grimes Copy Share Image
“Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
To play the ultimate Reading set, you need to freak yourself out for a few days beforehand. — James Righton Copy Share Image
“The colors, the conversations, everything is much more vibrant and inclusive, as if opening a book releases genies trapped inside.” — Susan Crawford Copy Share Image
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.” — Laura Vazquez Copy Share Image
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.” — Ross McDonald Copy Share Image
It's most useful to think about not jobs but tasks. And within any given job, there are lots of different tasks. If… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens… — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
“I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading. — James Dashner Copy Share Image
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I thought about Boris Johnson when reading about Attlee and Churchill. Does Boris need an Attlee who can do the details and… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
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