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.

Richelle Nice

There are so many things, so many things. Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Richelle Nice

Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Michael Douglas

Hello, Mr. Douglas, Mommy and Daddy will be right down.

Wiz Khalifa

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

Rick Riordan

Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

John Green

By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.

Oprah Winfrey

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

Rachel Caine

Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

Hector Hugh Munro

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Lech Walesa

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Michel De Certeau

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

Horst Koehler

Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany.

George Bernard Shaw

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

Jack Levine

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Fulton J. Sheen

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Francisco Franco

There will be no communism.