I'm quite a calm player. I like to have the ball at my feet, I'm good with the ball and I'm quite… — Victor Lindelof Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.” — Kylene Beers Copy Share Image
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless” — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“While reading a book by candlelight, the flickering candle flame dances on the words of the book, and the story of the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel… — Ben Jacobs Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service,… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.” — Eric Karpeles Copy Share Image
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee 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
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
I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“Quiet,” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.” — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. — Daniel Handler 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
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
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