Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C. S. Lewis

We read to know we are not alone.

C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Cathy Moriarty

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

Carrie Underwood

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Bill Blass

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Bill Bruford

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Penn Jillette

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

Tony Ward

What would worry me more is the snippets I've been reading from Gavin about the residential rule,

Cameron Mackintosh

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

Kumi Naidoo

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

Nora Roberts

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

Peter Travers

George Clooney is exceptional.

Rick Santorum

If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

Michael Cunningham

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

Elvis Presley

I was an overnight sensation.

Van Cliburn

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.