Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Muldoon

I do a lot of readings.

Ken Burns

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Ken Follett

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

Kathy Griffin

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

Keanu Reeves

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Childhood reading is so important.

Kristen Stewart

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

Oren Peli

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.

Oprah Winfrey

Reading gave me hope.

Oprah Winfrey

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

Olivia Munn

I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like that, you have to have some secret, magical unicorn blood that makes carbs disappear as they go into your body. I prefer the truth.

Oliver Kahn

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Oliver Goldsmith

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Margaret Atwood

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

Margaret Atwood

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Margaret Atwood

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marc Webb

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

Kid Rock

I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.

Kathryn Lasky

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

Margaret Thatcher

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces The Constitution of Liberty and Law, Legislation and Liberty that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

Margaret Atwood

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Margaret Atwood

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Aprilynne Pike

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

Paul Westerberg

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Mary Pope Osborne

As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly, these novels help us to develop a deeper understanding of the legacy of women who came before us and the strides made by our ancestors.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.