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.

Bill Janklow

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

Paul Schubert

We can no longer be simply a hiking association. We must reach out.

Brownie McGhee

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Roger Taylor

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Susan Orlean

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Tom Brown, Jr.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

John Muir

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Michael Caine

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.