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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Thomas Hoving

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

and City

Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!

Whitney Mays

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you.

Mark Griffiths

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction back in 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem. In no way has the hype lived up to what has actually been found in research.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Aldous Huxley

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Desmond Tutu

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Carl Sandburg

God, let me remember all good losers.

Donald Trump

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

Adam Duritz

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

Ann Brashares

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

Ann Brashares

I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her ; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.

Ann Brashares

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Ann Brashares

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Andrea Dworkin

Remember: Resist do not comply

Allen West

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.