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.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Nelson Mandela

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Oswald Chambers

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Pablo Picasso

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Meister Eckhart

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Philip Yancey

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Manuel Puig

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

John Mellencamp

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

John Heywood

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.