Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Emily Perkins

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading.

Jimmy Fallon

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

Lynne Truss

The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

John Green

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Jonathan Lethem

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.

Bobby Thomson

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Bob Dickinson

Within a minute's time, the fire doors in that area of the ship totally isolated that part of the vessel. The ... air conditioning system was shut down so that the fire would not get any oxygen internally.

Nan Aron

With Roberts, there was an air of inevitability from the very beginning. This situation is completely different.

Richard Olson

You had local officials who were clearly traumatized. The 10,000 number was picked out of the air by someone who was clearly on his way to post-traumatic stress syndrome - and understandably so.

Rick McCallum

When you make a lot of movies, some of them don't work. So when something does work and people are genuinely moved and you have 150 million people worldwide seeing a movie, believe me, it feels good and you want to snatch those victories from the air and hold onto them as long as you can, ... It just doesn't happen very often in the film business no matter whose career it is.

Mayor Giuliano

We all know that we're up in the rarified air as far as price. But I think people realize now that we're not making this up. It's a real budget, not a shell game. The community has said it wants a 50-year building, not a 27-year building. Well, if you really want it, here's the price tag.

Richard Segal

Uribe is such a breath of fresh air in Latin America; it's nice to have a country down there that's dependable.

Julius Steicher

The organized American air and ground pirates, who even call themselves murderers, are assisting in establishing this Jewish domination.

Ahmed Khan

Two air ambulances are needed for speedy evacuation of the casualties; four mobile hospitals are needed,