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.

Lucas Till

Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that was done wrong, which I'm not even going to get into. It was a pretty good idea and I liked where it was going, but then we got a chance to restart with Peter Lenkov [as executive producer/showrunner], who brought his vision to it. I remember reading his pilot script and it was just so exciting that I started hopping around my room.

Louise Jameson

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

Louis Auchincloss

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

Lord Byron

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Bobby Thomson

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Jim Murray

There's no arctic air that's been around here for the past month or so. It really allowed us to warm up down around Sioux City.

James Roche

There's obviously a mathematical probability that there is a male cadet who in fact did assault a female and got commissioned, and if we can find out who that is we'll have to see what our legal basis is to take action, ... We don't want that kind of person in our Air Force. That's why we're doing what we're doing.

Robert Taylor

There's nothing closer to indoor golf than here in November and December because you have that air conditioned air feel with no bugs and no wind. It literally feels like you're playing in a dome. It's that good.

Randy Carter

The top two hay bales were on fire, so I'm hitting my air horn and my siren. It's a fluke.

Rod Eddington

The tragic events in the USA will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the demand for air travel in the months ahead, ... We have taken the necessary steps to curtail expenditure and sadly to cut our workforce.

Rick Heinrich

The tire went down, lost air pressure. We talked to Jimmie and he had felt the tire start to go down in Turn 1. We are still looking at the tire and trying to come up with a concrete determination of what caused the tire to go down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear related at this point.

Ari Fleischer

The United States doesn't understand the reasons for an apology, ... Our airplanes were operating in international air space and the United States did nothing wrong.

Mike Harris

The unique thing about here is we have the air guard right next door. Those guys not only do some different things over the golf course, but for someone coming in and seeing that first time, it is a feeling of awe.