Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message. — Jay Kesler Copy Share Image
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up... it was all about that larger universe. — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.” — Janet H. Murray Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness.… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
“That’s why I read, as a stranger, My being as if it were pages. Not knowing what will come And forgetting what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the… — Lawrence Kleep Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. — John Murphy Copy Share Image
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect. — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research. — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor. — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game. — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading? — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
