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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an… — Norman Mailer
What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart.… — Maya Angelou
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could… — Will Ferguson
In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot. — Dave Barry
The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is… — George Mikes
I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as… — Dave Barry
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn
Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be… — Mata Amritanandamayi
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. — Walter Inglis Anderson
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.… — Bronislaw Malinowski
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to… — Abraham Pais
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or… — Julian Huxley
Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds… — Donna Jo Napoli
I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know… — Jerry Seinfeld
I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be… — Martin Luther
A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being… — Gary Reilly
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. — Bill Gates
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that… — George R. R. Martin
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read. — Khaled Hosseini
The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you… — Jeannette Walls
Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write… — Stan Lee

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