Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Samuel Pepys

I know not how to abstain from reading.

Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Richard M. Nixon

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Matthew Stern

Guests can actually order a show or movie, press pause, leave their room and come back and pick up where they left off. Digital is so flexible, it is amazing.

Linus Torvalds

I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 'anti-DRM' measures aren't all that wonderful after all. Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM.' They very much are 'good security' too.

Rodney Brooks

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Tom Rutledge

In every way, it's exactly the same product as (subscribers would) get with a physical hard disk digital video recorder.

Nicholas Negroponte

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Nathan Brookwood

The digital watch was actually the first important application of CMOS technology.

Danny Braet

This is a character-driven movie, not an effects blockbuster. Our work had to reflect that. Spaceships and explosions are fine, but that's just a small part of how digital effects are used today. In this movie they exist simply to enhance the storyline.

Nikki Rocco

This is a big step forward in the transition to digital cinema.

Gary Shapiro

They truly illustrate the progress of technology in the digital age,

S. Walker

Heck, at times I was off two weeks at a crack. I was able to get around London and visit those fantastic museums.

Karl Hobbs

He was fantastic today. He's a kid I've talked a lot about. It was a matter of time before he was going to show his talent.

Sasha Jackson

I live a fantastic life; I have fantastic friends - I stay out of the Hollywood stuff as much as I can because it's so much fun that you don't want to go down that path; you just want to work.

Juliana Rotich

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!

Jeff Simmons

I know this is a fantastic opportunity with a great team.

Torrie Wheat

It's killing us having to wait so much because that was a very disappointing game. It was a combination of them playing some fantastic hockey and us not playing our best. You never like to lose, but it's made us more focused for the home opener.

Jacqueline Gold

It's fantastic that people are adventurous - but they need to be careful.

Susan Sontag

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.

Bryan Smolinski

They played a fantastic road game. We kind of ad-libbed and got away from our game and you saw the result.