The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive,… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I love the coffee shops and reading rooms where one can sit and talk or browse forever. I” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat… — Joan DeJean Copy Share Image
“That of the British Museum Reading-room,’ explained Jasper; ‘known to some of us as the valley of the shadow of books. People… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation… — Henry Fonda Copy Share Image
“The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading… — J.E Allen Copy Share Image
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“The coyly nicknamed explosive Key4 had been developed by Special Forces specifically for opening locked doors with minimal collateral damage. Consisting primarily… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time,… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“Then we will do two things," Penumbra says, nodding. "First, I will tell you just a little of our history. Then, to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“What they display, these students who don't arrive in the reading room until nine, or even later, is a kind of daring.… — Hanne Ørstavik Copy Share Image
“Since the library has just opened for the day, there's no one else there and I have the elegant reading room all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Best of all, Galignani’s, the English bookstore and reading room, a favorite gathering place, stood across the street from the hotel. There… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Earlier that day, a typewriter bomb had exploded at a black market skin house over on Eel Street, sending words raining through… — Craig Padawer Copy Share Image
“My head is throbbing. I need coffee. Leaving the marbled papers in a state of controlled chaos, I walk through the office… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Tshepo reckons that it is inevitable that one’s circle of friends will become smaller as one grows older. He reasons that when… — Kopano Matlwa Copy Share Image
“Now Justin stood in our reading room, leaning up against the wall, arms crossed over his chest. He was tall, with a… — Kim Harrington Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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