The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say… — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt… — David Small Copy Share Image
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually… — Marilyn Jager Adams Copy Share Image
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“I am Mavis Elizabeth Betterly. I am used to hard work. I can run a household better than Mrs. Oblinger ever could.… — Caroline Starr Rose Copy Share Image
The reading I did do that stuck with me was usually somewhat breathless and brittle - I suppose camp. But my definition… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I grew up reading about all those film-makers who were part of a group, like the new wave. It's a little stranger… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
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