“A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up… — Rich Burlew Copy Share Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading… — David Rees Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it… — Nina Bernstein Copy Share Image
Back when I went to Louisiana State University a million years ago, we got the Baton Rouge paper. But if you wanted… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible,… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
A newspaper is ten times more interesting when somebody across the table is reading it? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I think that the most important thing for me is how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I… — Sinclair Lewis 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 reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image