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.

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?

C. S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Bella Thorne

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

Daniel Handler

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Claire Messud

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'

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.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Donald Miller

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

Colin Wilson

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

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.

Paul Verlaine

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.

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.

Paul Byrd

It was one of those days where you wake up and the room is dark, and you say where am I? But it beats sitting home on the couch watching.

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.