In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
I've always been an outsider. I grew up in an isolated house surrounded by three moats. There was no money. I left… — Amanda Feilding Copy Share Image
“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have a few grey hairs. I dye them. I don't let them show when I'm reading the news. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Advice? Fail constantly. Because the word doesn't mean what you think it means, especially when you're an artist. I use the word… — Victor Giannini Copy Share Image
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time,… — Kathryn Alesandrini Copy Share Image
My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“But what is a book? And what will change if we read onscreen rather than by turning the pages of a physical… — Jean-Philippe de Tonnac Copy Share Image
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it,… — Holly Valance Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible carefully, critically in the light of its historical circumstances, recognizing its humanity while hearing God speak through it, we… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
“[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image