My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history… — Usher Copy Share Image
“Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
“It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of… — Paula D'Arcy Copy Share Image
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Confidence thrills men for it means you won’t be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible,… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
I grew up your classic nerd who was not good at throwing balls or kicking them. I was good at reading stories… — Tom King Copy Share Image
“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Whenever I can, I like to go to Cotswolds, in England, where my husband had a cottage. I spend my time reading… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
My personal trainer, she's been reading the textbooks, she doesn't want me to do too much, she says: 'Don't overheat, don't over-stretch,… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image