Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitchell Hurwitz

But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in.

Mark Vonnegut

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

Mark Vonnegut

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

Mark Vonnegut

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Mark Wahlberg

Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.

Miguel de Unamuno

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Mickey Mantle

Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

Nicholas Brendon

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Naguib Mahfouz

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

Priyanka Chopra

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

Joseph Brodsky

Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.

Joseph Brodsky

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

Joseph Brodsky

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

Leonardo da Vinci

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Oscar Wilde

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Paul Rand

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Patrick Rothfuss

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

Patrick Rothfuss

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

Patrick Rothfuss

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

Patrick Rothfuss

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.

Patrick Rothfuss

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Paloma Faith

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

Lily Collins

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

LeVar Burton

That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

LeVar Burton

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Lev Grossman

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

Leigh Hunt

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

P. J. O'Rourke

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

Paul Merson

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

Paul Mellon

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Paul Muldoon

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Paul Muldoon

I do a lot of readings.