I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the… — Jimmy Armfield Copy Share Image
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
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I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I… — Amanda Marshall Copy Share Image
You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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