Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bella Thorne

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

Neil Gaiman

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Nora Ephron

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Nasser Hussain

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jerome K. Jerome

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Slobodan Milosevic

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

Sister Souljah

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

Mercedes McCambridge

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

John Owen

To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

John Milton

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

John Milton

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

John Milton

Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

John Milton

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

John Milton

Tears such as angels weep.

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

Francis Beaumont

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

Francis Atterbury

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

George Washington

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

George Santayana

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.