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.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

John C. Maxwell

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Marilyn Ferguson

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

R. Buckminster Fuller

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Paul Gascoigne

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Charles Richards

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Rob Zombie

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

William Gibson

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,

Sarah Addison Allen

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

Sara Bareilles

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.