Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Samuel Rogers

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

Rhys Ifans

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

Rebecca Eaton

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Richard Ford

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Richard Ford

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Robert Duvall

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.

Brian Brown

It got kind of wild there at the end.

Hector Carrasco

It is kinda frustrating, but that is the way it is sometimes.

Carmen Electra

I was a little nervous, 'cause for me, it's kinda like taking a big step and really doing something different,

Alan Thicke

He was kind enough to take me under his wing.

Pete Johnson

He was one of the most humble, kindest men I've ever met. He was able to relate to everybody.

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Peter Carey

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.