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.

Kevin Kalkhoven

Tony and I have made a lot of progress in getting to know each other and understanding each other's viewpoints. We're trying to build bridges for the future.

Amr Khaled

Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it must be two-way bridges.

Larry Crowe

Cornel West bridges another gap between the intellectual elite and the masses of people that are struggling every day to sometimes get a job or get the kind of education that he got. He comes from the grassroots and relates back to that.

Deborah Johns

There's so much negative information in the media. If the building of bridges and roads and schools and power plants was portrayed in the media, it would make a huge difference. We need to stand by our men and women so they can keep their morale up.

Phil Garner

There's several great points from our standpoint in that game. It was Backe's first time back, and he kept us in the ballgame. And Wandy Rodriguez, who has been a starter, he goes out and gives us one inning and kind of bridges our bullpen.

Cory Booker

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Robert Henri

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Rudolf Carnap

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

Roger Tory Peterson

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.