Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Matthew Perry

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

J. R. Celski

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Susan Dolan

They are about her life down there, where she has some property. She spent a lot of time on the water.

James Salter

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

Lucinda Williams

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

James Williams

The words that matter most in my life now is when people tell me that I remind them of my brother,

Charles Flynn

This is a really important moment in the life of this plane and the life of this story.

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.

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.

C. S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Ron Krumer

During the treatment, we found out he owned a chicken coop and that some of his birds had died in recent days. We took samples from the man and he was isolated.

Roger Morris

This software models any contagious disease. Basically, what we can do is to give the model the characteristics of any contagious disease, such as bird flu, foot and mouth disease or SARS.

e. e. cummings

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

Alexander Pope

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Amos Oz

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Anne Stevenson

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Anna Lee

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

David Archuleta

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

David Attenborough

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.