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,

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

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?

Bella Thorne

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Edwidge Danticat

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

Brian Greene

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

Edward Abbey

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Amy Lowell

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Amos Oz

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Amos Oz

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Jack Abramoff

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

David Barnes

Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it will fast-track him to a British title shot sooner and jump him up to 15th place in the world title ratings.

Jim Rash

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

Andy Coulson

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Frank Willis

It's hard, but it beats being behind the wall.

Alan Cowman

It's like a leopard being able to change its spots. New forms come up, and the immune system beats them down again. Because of this a lot of people think you need five years of constant exposure to malaria in its different disguises to gain immunity.

Kenneth Ferrie

It's kind of who beats who between Nick and I this week, but if one of us just misses out it would be hard not to maybe consider us for a pick as well.

Pat Summitt

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

Michael Woolfolk

This certain beats even the most optimistic forecasts,