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.

Andre Benjamin

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

Talib Kweli

I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content.

Meek Mill

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Ice T

Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

Tupac Shakur

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Tupac Shakur

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

Tupac Shakur

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Tupac Shakur

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

John Wilson

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Stephane Dion

People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results.

Lucy Mathiak

People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.

Raf Simons

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Bobbi Brown

People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James.

Jay Stewart

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Paul Adams

People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.

Josh Fox

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.