“You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions. — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people… — Colleen Ballinger Copy Share Image
I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So,… — Caroline Dries Copy Share Image
It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Some of them are working hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and… — Ethan Russell Erway Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Benjamin: I'm glad to hear your witirng experiment inspired you to read more. Reading is the best way to learn to write.… — Mamahooana Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading allow one consciousness to find and take shelter in another. When the minds of the reader and writer perfectly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image