With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science;… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time".… — Lisa Immordino Vreeland Copy Share Image
We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichéd way that storytelling is talked… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' -… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had always been an avid bookworm and a straight-A student. I approached my cancer the same way I approached… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a… — Alina Bronsky Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
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...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly,… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
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