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?

Jane Campion

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

Amy Grant

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Regina Brett

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

Paloma Faith

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

Jim Mowen

I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

Virginia Jackson

I've been trying to get it done for a long time.

Jimmy Rollins

I understood that he was trying to get to third,

Robby Wine

That's what they're trying to do right now, show that it is worldwide.

Steve Sullivan

You're always trying to improve. When you see everyone else around you bettering themselves, you want to do the same thing.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Aziz Ansari

No one's trying to get with jugglers.