I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Honestly, I think I have this narcolepsy thing with reading. I fall asleep when I'm reading. So, if I stay awake to… — Emily Hampshire Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice that all this time, she was… — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
Today, if the CEO thinks it's a good idea, it's done everywhere; if the CEO thinks it's a bad idea, it's done… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“There’s a sort of melancholy romance to the experience of being lonesome. I think of reading as a kind of romantic alone… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes… — Rick Reilly Copy Share Image
I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comics - mostly Marvel - Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm the type of person where either my mind or body, or usually both, are always in motion. So I need outlets.… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image