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.

Aziz Ansari

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

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?

Carson McCullers

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Alan Davies

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Austin Carlile

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

Brian Cox

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Barry Levinson

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Bruce Chatwin

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

Bruce Chatwin

For life is a journey through a wilderness

Clark Bunting

This is not an infomercial. These are straight-up documentaries that Discovery would do anyway.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

Bryant H. McGill

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Jared Diamond

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Alan Winter

We've got 200 years' worth of scientific discovery and equipment locked away in the basement. All those items - around 6,000 objects - will be put on display.

Patrick White

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.