Books Quote by Gene Tierney Download Open image “I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.” — Gene Tierney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Days Nothing Now Read Up
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I don't get time to read often - the last hour before bed is somehow always spent clearing up the day's mess instead. — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image