Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jamie Farr

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Peter Drucker

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we're not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. But biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Martin Filler

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Lesley Visser

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Diablo Cody

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.