Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Tori Amos

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Robert Quine

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Robert Pinsky

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

Robert Pozen

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

Sasha Pieterse

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

Sasha Grey

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

Sarah Zettel

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Martin Brodeur

I thought we played really well. We've got to get the third period out of our mind and be comfortable with how we played.

Darrell Bevell

It had to do with his feet, and where his mind was at the time.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Bob Pringle

He needs this right now, just to get his mind off the other stuff.

Robert Collier

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

P. J. Harvey

Kids used to sit back and listen to lectures. Now they're leaning in. Body language has changed.

Veda Upanishads

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Richard Neal

I would submit to you today that this is the easiest thing in this body that could be done with Democrats and Republicans to simplify the Tax Code.

Wanda Davis

Just like small women do things, like do their hair or do their nails and buy nice clothes to make that small body look good, full-figured women can do the same thing.

Tim Buckley

He's a difficult match-up because he uses his body so well and he's very good around the basket. He's a very good position player. I think he's done a phenomenal job throughout the years of being able to draw contact when he shoots the ball.

Henry David Thoreau

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Alex Rodriguez

His stuff was electric, his body looks fit. He looks ready to go.

Omar Vizquel

I think it's kind of bulls---. It's not right. The past is the past. I don't know if you can test a body from five years ago. They didn't have records back then.

Eve Ensler

I think it's, hopefully, liberating. The idea is that they'll walk out loving their body and wanting to eat ice cream,