Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aneurin Bevan

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Ang Lee

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

Anatole France

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

Amanda Peet

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Anne Fadiman

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Anne Graham Lotz

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

Anne Hathaway

It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

Anne Frank

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Chuck Palahniuk

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

Chuck Jones

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Chuck Klosterman

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

Christopher Wren

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Christopher Walken

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

Christopher Moore

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

Christopher Moore

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Annie Proulx

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror...

Annie Proulx

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

Anne Bronte

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Douglas Adams

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Doris Lessing

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Doris Lessing

I never stopped reading.

Doris Lessing

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Donna Shalala

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Donna Tartt

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Donald Kagan

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

Dale Carnegie

i really like reading books

Craig Newmark

I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.

Daniel Pennac

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Daniel Pennac

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Daniel Pennac

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

Daniel Pinkwater

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve.