Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Alberto Manguel

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

Alfred Molina

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bible reading is an education in itself.

Donald Cram

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

Donald Barthelme

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.

Dylan Thomas

Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.