The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I am kind of different from most of the kids at my school. I hate gossip and… — AnnaSophia Robb Copy Share Image
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like,… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the… — Eugene Manlove Rhodes Copy Share Image
Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms… — George Will Copy Share Image
I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
“Life is a lot like pizza… But in fact, Hank, the fundamental thing that all critical reading does is reveal to us… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing,… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
“More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read." "Doesn't mean I won't get… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and intersecting all… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“Is there anything in your life trying to slip off? Is your health threatening to leave you? Is your joy threatening to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens," he answered without hesitation. "Not Exactly fashionable." "That's why I read them. If you only read the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image