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.

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 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.

Roald Dahl

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

Roald Dahl

I'm wondering what to read next.

Richard Powers

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Salman Rushdie

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Phil Garner

I have not seen him. I have messages that he sent to other people.

H. Hunt

The messages can be tailored to how the parameters are defined.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your life is your message.

Mahatma Gandhi

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

Nicholas Sparks

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Jim Marchiony

There will be a section for every sport that ever fielded a varsity team, whether it's still in existence or not. Every sport -- men's and women's -- will be represented.

Rick Costa

This leave has been in existence for as long as I can remember. This is not anything new.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Gerry Gilmore

These are the first properties other than existence that we've been able determine.

Saul Bellow

There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thinking we have to do and all the judgments we have to make. It's the price of freedom: make the judgments, make the mental calls,

Alex Miller

What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing.

Andre Breton

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Anne Carson

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.