Readings Quotes
82 Readings quotes by 76 unique authors
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I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I…
— Josh Holloway
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Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations…
— Tom Clancy
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Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything…
— Leigh Newman
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I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my…
— Hiroko Sakai
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
— Umberto Eco
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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper…
— Anne Lamott
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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
— Henry Miller
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions…
— Viggo Mortensen
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture…
— V.S. Naipaul
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I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I…
— Jill Scott
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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like…
— Janet Fitch
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Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware…
— Lionel Shriver
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The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we…
— Rebecca Solnit
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I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris…
— Sarah Vowell
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I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with…
— George R. R. Martin
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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me,…
— Alice Hoffman
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The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
— Joseph Campbell
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