A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“People are like mugs with different handles. Some can be held by their emotions; others by their logic, passions, desires or dreams” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
So, I was a fan of 'Luther' from the first reading of the script and watching the first series. I think the… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this,… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if… — Ben Stein 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
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you'll be happy because you have discovered… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love a nicely designed paper comic but I don't need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
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