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.

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?

Jane Campion

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Democritus

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Claude Debussy

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Adelbert von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Alex Kingston

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

Debbie Ford

Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential.

E. M. Forster

... there are shadows because there are hills.

Anna Katharine Green

The very shadows seem to listen.

Czeslaw Milosz

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

E. B. White

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Katsuya Okada

(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it.

Marjorie Kaplan

Personal attention is most important. When you introduce a new concept ... there are students who don't understand the concept and need extra work.

Michael Wallace

People who invest in these companies should not pay attention to quarter-to-quarter numbers, ... They should look at the yearly numbers. You need to take a long term approach.

John Ashcroft

People who interfere with the exercise of constitutionally protected rights should be the focus of attention by prosecutorial authorities,

Kathleen Patterson

People, up to now, haven't been paying attention to water. It hasn't been a big issue for a while.

Billy Gillispie

People thought P.J. didn't play all that well at our place, but he's where all your attention always goes (defensively). I wish it was not at our expense, but I'm really happy to see a guy bounce back after what happened at the end of that game. I guess I'm not that happy. But I was glad for him.

Flip Saunders

Our division was closed with 20-something games to go. The conference was closed with 10 or 12 games to go, so everyone turned their attention toward out west and the chase that was happening out there.

Rick Adelman

Our energy level tonight was up. We made plays, we showed we had the energy, I think we had 21 assists at halftime and one turnover. Our offense was efficient tonight. We haven't been playing well these last seven games and our offense was the thing hurting us the most. Guys were trying to do everything on their own and we need to get back to trusting our teammates and passing the ball. We weren't paying much attention to detail in these last seven games, but we were better tonight.