“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“While reading a book by candlelight, the flickering candle flame dances on the words of the book, and the story of the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private… — Flora Haines Loughead Copy Share Image
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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I'm the type of bloke who gets a flatpack cabinet from Ikea, puts it together without reading the instructions, then gets the… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it… — Jim Dooley Copy Share Image
Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip… — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
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I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
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Poetry on TV doesn't have to be like a newscast with someone staring blankly at the camera, pretending they're not reading from… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's… — Thon Maker Copy Share Image
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
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