“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“You only get out of something what you bring into it, whether it is your job, your relationships, watching a movie, or… — John D. Mosley Copy Share Image
“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
I hadn't read any of the books before, but I have since we started. It's so funny because I'm reading a book… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“Adopted children are self invented because we have to be. There's an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“While Reading a Book, I can Surf through Galaxies without even carrying an oxygen mask.” — My self Copy Share Image
My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I got back from the University late in the afternoon, had a quick swim, ate my dinner, and bolted off to the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it,… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
“It may be lazy to sit on the couch all day. But if you are reading a book while sitting on the… — Kristin Hansen Copy Share Image
