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
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social… — Noelle Scaggs Copy Share Image
In fact, there is no business; there are only people. Business exists only *among* people and *for* people.Seems simple enough, and it… — James Autry Copy Share Image
“Bible daily reading:Awaken of my soul to purest of knowledge.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as… — Charles W. Freeman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me feel more mushy and full of love for my husband than going back and looking at our flirtation unfolding… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“You read a lot?" Galina finally asked. "Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
