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.

Kevin Quinn

I think they'll get on with their lives, get more sleep.

Adam Blanton

I ain't been able to eat, sleep, nothing for 36 days.

Mariano Rivera

I didn't want to give in, ... I didn't want him to get a little blooper or something. I wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight.

Richard Avedon

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

Ryan Kwanten

Sleep has never been a priority in my life.

Umberto Eco

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Truman Capote

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

Truman Capote

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

Raymond Chandler

We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." —

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Tupac Shakur

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

Valerie Trierweiler

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

Valerie Trierweiler

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

Van Morrison

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

Upton Sinclair

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

Tyra Banks

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.