Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks. — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn't have necessarily even… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact,… — Daniel Whyte III Copy Share Image
[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense … But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for… — Dan Brown 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
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath… — Laurie Horowitz Copy Share Image
![“[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie…” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b1b/bill-ayers-1848_bernie-sanders_students-for-a-democratic-society-was-on_2598828.jpg)
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